“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.”
The Bible (Job 38:4)
CreationAwe
Amazing Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AMAZING
Amazing Quotes
Read 200 amazing quotes about wonder, the universe, nature and the miracles of everyday life from Shakespeare, Newton, Whitman, Emerson and more.
“With God all things are possible.”
The Bible (Mark 10:27)
FaithPossibility
“O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.”
The Bible (Psalm 104:24)
CreationGratitude
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.”
The Bible (Job 12:7)
NatureLearning
“He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.”
The Bible (Psalm 147:4)
StarsFaith
“The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:12)
NatureJoy
“The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
Galileo Galilei
UniverseNature
“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
Johannes Kepler
NatureScience
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
KnowledgeJoy
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
Mark Twain
ScienceFunny
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!”
Lewis Carroll
IdentityMystery
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
Oscar Wilde
MysteryPerspective
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.”
Michel de Montaigne
Self-DiscoveryMiracles
“Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it is the Creator.”
Kabir
SoulFaith
“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it.”
Kabir
Inner LightSpirituality
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
Samuel Johnson
CuriosityMind
“I am the daughter of Earth and Water, and the nursling of the Sky.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
NatureSky
“Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; destroyer and preserver.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
NaturePower
“'Nature' is what we see - the Hill - the Afternoon - Squirrel - Eclipse - the Bumble bee.”
Emily Dickinson
NatureWonder
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant - success in Circuit lies.”
Emily Dickinson
TruthWisdom
“The grass seeks her crowd in the earth. The tree seeks his solitude of the sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
NatureBalance
“Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.”
Rabindranath Tagore
GrowthHumanity
“The mystery of creation is like the darkness of night - it is great. Delusions of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.”
Rabindranath Tagore
MysteryCreation
“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”
Lao Tzu
MysterySpirituality
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
William Blake
EternityTime