“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
William Blake
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AMAZING
Read 200 amazing quotes about wonder, the universe, nature and the miracles of everyday life from Shakespeare, Newton, Whitman, Emerson and more.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
William Blake
“Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.”
John Keats
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, the earth, and every common sight, to me did seem apparelled in celestial light.”
William Wordsworth
“Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”
William Wordsworth
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
William Wordsworth
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.”
Lord Byron
“Flower in the crannied wall, if I could understand what you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ring'd with the azure world, he stands.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Glory be to God for dappled things.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
Chuang Tzu
“There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change.”
Lao Tzu
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works.”
The Bible (Psalm 139:14)
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
The Bible (Psalm 19:1)
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him?”
The Bible (Psalm 8:3-4)
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:28-29)
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Isaac Newton
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Isaac Newton
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Charles Darwin
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
Michael Faraday
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”
Victor Hugo
“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.”
Saint Augustine