Wonder Quotes

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience...

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world...

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, ...

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world al...

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wo...

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverything...

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of ...

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's nev...

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in a...

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the th...

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . ....

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...

So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There yo...

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clappin...

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I...

I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such ...

It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly s...

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philos...

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to...

Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, m...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased ...

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecess...

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of ...

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your...

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come nex...

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none th...

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of know...

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful en...

If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an ea...

...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand."EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.A...

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No...

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the re...

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M...

Isn't it incredible?, I said.There was nothing incredible about it, she said.I thought it was so bec...

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel i...

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life...

What's seldom is wonderful.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, ...

The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene cras...

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most ma...

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -...

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the tru...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectr...

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the...

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at...

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and ...

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forev...

I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad th...

Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of new-found marvels and he wanted to...

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowl...

A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag...

Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen t...

I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.

The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, b...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment...

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else th...

Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its we...

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but b...

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walk...

MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nouris...

This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has mana...

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, whic...

This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going...

Memory is the enemy of wonder

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that...

The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are beh...

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple yo...

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the insid...

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To ...

I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!