Wonder Quotes

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!

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of th...

I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time...

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around...

...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of a...

Sometimes it's good to start over

sometimes i think my head is so big because its full of dreams

And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how ...

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she...

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around...

I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says. "Yeah, I ag...

Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do...

One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it help...

He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from differen...

Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of...

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impression...

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...

Those who dwell , as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never a...

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune ...

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of ...

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of cre...

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ...

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a though...

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h...

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite pos...

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and ...

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six ...