Wonder Quotes

Quotations about Wonder


Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. ~ James Henry Leigh Hun

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ~ Henry Miller

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M. C. Escher

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

From wonder into wonder existence opens. ~ Lao Tzu

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. ~ Albert Schweitzer

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened. ~ Tommy Lasorda

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. ~ Margaret Mead

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! ~ Lord Byron

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. ~ Ronald Reagan

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

No wonder lasts over three days. ~ Traditional Proverb

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up. ~ Randy Pausch

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ~ Plato

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. ~ Ray Bradbury

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. ~ Abraham J. Heschel

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak. ~ William Shakespeare

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. ~ Plato

Worship is transcendent wonder. ~ Thomas Carlyle

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. ~ Henry Fielding

Nothing but what astonishes is true. ~ Edward Young

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~ Ray Bradbury

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ~ Samuel Johnson

Philosophy is the product of wonder. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Some men wonder over God's values, others over the cut of a garment. ~ Afghan Proverb

Wonder is prophetic. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~ Kahlil Gibran

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ~ Charles Morgan

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders…It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. ~ Oscar Wilde

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ~ Aristotle

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. ~ John Burroughs

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. ~ Sir Thomas Browne

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. ~ Stephen Hawking

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ Albert Einstein

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. ~ Alice Walker

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. ~ Herman Melville

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ~ Mark Twain

Wonder is involuntary praise. ~ Edward Young

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. ~ Bishop Robert South

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

At last fell humbly down upon his knees, and of his wonder made religion. ~ Edmund Spenser

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. ~ William Faulkner

Wonder is the basis of worship. ~ Thomas Carlyle

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset

As each day goes by, you wonder where you're going to go next. God always comes through - he always has in the past. ~ Kim Klardie

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discovery, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ~ Samuel Horsley

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ~ Polykarp Kusch

This wonder lasted nine daies. ~ John Heywood

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~ Ralph W. Sockman