Awe Quotes - Page 5

• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happy, Work, Men

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• What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Shade, Sun, Awe Inspiring

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Goal, Action

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

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• If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.4

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

  Carl Sagan

  Prophet, Subtle, Bigger

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Night, Laziness

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.286, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Inspiring, Graduation

  "Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

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• Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

  Rajneesh

  Wonder, Uncertainty

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• There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

  Kurt Hahn

  Life, Education, Learning

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• Wonder is the salt of the earth.

  M. C. Escher

  Earth, Salt, Wonder

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• The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

  Johannes Kepler

  Men, Matter, Wonder

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• The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
  Even though this world is forever altering its values.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forever, Humanity, World

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

  Pete Sampras

  Mets, Persons

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• Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

  Andrew Marvell

  Fear, Men, Self

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• I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard.  Everyone has a listening point somewhere.  It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Listening, Doe, Quiet

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “LISTENING POINT”, p.14, Knopf

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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Hero

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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• Close your eyes and you will see.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Vision, Seeing

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, World, Dark Clouds

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.100, Anchor

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• Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

  John Tillotson

  God, Men, Darkness

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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