“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
~ Socrates
"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
~ Albert Einstein
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
~ Khalil Gibran
"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
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
~ Thomas Aquinas
"There are two kinds of writers: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder."
~ Brian Aldiss
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand."
~ Neil Armstrong
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome fear, behold wonder."
~ Richard Bach
"The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your life."
~ Jack Boland
"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."
~ Ray Bradbury
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"All the wonders you seek are within yourself."
~ Sir Thomas Brown
"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
~ Pearl S. Buck
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world."
~ John Burroughs
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
~ Rachel Carson
"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."
~ Rachel Carson
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
~ G.K. Chesterton
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
~ E.E. Cummings
"What is this life if, full of care, we have not time to stand and stare."
~ W. H. Davies
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes a creation."
~ Bette Davis
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
~ Albert Einstein
"Gratitude and wonder are two of the most empowering and healing perspectives."
~ Jonathan H. Ellerby
"We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
~ Robert Frost
"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
~ Robert Fulghum
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
~ Saint Augustine
"Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge."
~ Abraham Heschel
"Every one of us is a wonder. Every one of us has a story."
~ Kristin Hunter
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
~ Helen Keller
"This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us off-guard, that break in our small bordered worlds. When this happens everything feels more spacious."
~ Anne Lamott
"From wonder into wonder existence opens."
~ Lao Tzu
"Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow."
~ Madeleine L'Engle
"Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof."
~ Julie Moir Messervy
"I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful."
~ Marilyn Monroe
"To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a constant companion."
~ David Oldfield
"Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
~ Mary Oliver
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
~ Plato
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
~ Plato
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
~ Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies
"A fool wonders, the wise man wanders."
~ Susan Rea
“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”
~ Diane Ackerman
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
~ Ronald Reagan
"Sell your cleaverness and purchase bewilderment."
~ Rumi
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
~ Saint Augustine
"Think and wonder, wonder and think."
~ Dr. Seuss
"Look at everything as if you were seeing it either for the first or last time."
~ Betty Smith
"The longer the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
~ Ralph Sockman
"Wisdom begins with wonder. Be as you wish to seem."
~ Socrates
"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."
~ Walt Streightiff
"Supposing you only saw the stars once a year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!"
~ Tasha Tudor
"The more I wonder, the more I love."
~ Alice Walker
"We can't be creative if we refuse to be confused."
~ Margaret Wheatley
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."
~ E. B. White
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