375 quotes
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
— John Burroughs
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.”
— Aristotle
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make with wonder as your guide”
— Jane Goodall
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
— William Blake
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
— E. E. Cummings
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful something is wrong for beauty is wonder”
— Buckminster Fuller
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better through a sense of wonder”
— Albert Einstein
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure”
— Sadhguru
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”
“The present is theirs but the future for which I have really worked is mine and the future is full of wonder”
— Nikola Tesla
“The beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth and those who follow it find wonder at every turn”
— Simone Weil
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“Wisdom begins in wonder and wonder never ceases for the truly curious mind”
— Socrates
“The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder itself”
— G.K. Chesterton
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Marie Curie
“There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into forms full of wonder”
— Charles Darwin
“Judge a person by their questions rather than their answers for questions are born of wonder”
— Voltaire
“To the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty and a picture of wonder that was never seen before”
— Emerson
“The nitrogen in our DNA the calcium in our teeth the iron in our blood were made in the interiors of collapsing stars and that is wonder”
— Carl Sagan
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving but on experiencing wonder along the way”
— Lao Tzu
“To catch a glimpse of the marvelous in the ordinary is the task of art and wonder makes it possible”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions but when you give with wonder you give of yourself”
— Khalil Gibran
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because we ourselves are part of the mystery and the wonder”
— Max Planck
“Those who do not believe in magic will never find it but those who approach life with wonder find magic everywhere”
— Roald Dahl
“The gift of mental power comes from God divine being and if we concentrate our minds on wonder truth is revealed”
“Be like the sun which pours forth light and wonder upon all without distinction”
— Rumi
“To pay attention this is our endless and proper work and attention is the root of wonder”
— Mary Oliver
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule of DNA.”
— Lewis Thomas
“The child who concentrates is immensely happy because wonder fills their entire being”
— Maria Montessori
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious world of wonder”
— Henry Miller
“We are all lonely for something we do not know or cannot name but wonder brings us closer to it”
— Alan Lightman
“Live in each season as it passes and breathe the air drink the drink taste the fruit and surrender to wonder”
— Thoreau
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
— King David
“The soul is healed by being with children who remind us what wonder looks like in its purest form”
— Dostoevsky
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
— Gerry Spence
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
— Unknown
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have and that it is filled with wonder”
— Eckhart Tolle
“In every outward-reaching effort of life there is a wondrous diversity.”
— Rachel Carson
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“The important thing is not to stop questioning because curiosity and wonder have their own reason for existing”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity and not as a community to which we belong full of wonder”
— Aldo Leopold
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“You are the sky and everything else is just the weather passing through with wonder at its changes”
— Pema Chodron
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof and wonder is its constant companion”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”
— Blaise Pascal
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions for wonder has expanded it”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake and there is more day to dawn when we awaken to wonder”
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope for hope is born of wonder”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it because not everyone approaches life with wonder”
— Confucius
“Once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been and there you long to return with wonder”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The miracle is not to walk on water the miracle is to walk on the green earth dwelling in wonder”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist but at the bottom God is waiting with wonder”
— Werner Heisenberg
“Heaven and earth are impartial; they treat all things as straw dogs. The Tao is like a bellows: empty yet inexhaustible.”
— Laozi
“The sun with all those planets revolving around it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else to do filling us with wonder”
— Galileo Galilei
“Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood and understanding begins with wonder”
“No one ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and we are not the same person and this is wonder”
— Heraclitus
“The heart has its reasons which reason does not know and wonder speaks the language of the heart”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the seashore finding wonders”
— Isaac Newton
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal and time will show it filled with wonder and imagination”
— Ada Lovelace
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it”
“Learning never exhausts the mind because wonder fuels it endlessly with fresh curiosity”
“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs.”
“Research is formalized curiosity and it is poking and prying with a purpose born of wonder”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible and this comprehensibility is wonder”
— Einstein
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know wonder and humility”
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
— Erich Fromm
“The human brain has one hundred billion neurons each capable of making thousands of connections creating wonder”
— Michio Kaku
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”
— Stephen Hawking
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately and see if I could learn what the woods had to teach about wonder”
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me and look what happens with a wonder like that”
— Hafiz
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness and wonder fills the emptiness that striving leaves behind”
— Chuang Tzu
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself and that knowledge fills us with wonder”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us filled with wonder”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something worth living for and wonder provides that reason”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Everyone can see the stars, but few understand their greatness.”
“We are the local embodiment of a cosmos grown to self-awareness and we have begun to contemplate our origins with wonder”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.”
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known and that fills us with wonder”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
“The bird fights its way out of the egg and the world is the egg that must be cracked open to reveal wonder”
— Hermann Hesse
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and the gateway to experiencing wonder”
“I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained and full of natural wonder”
— Walt Whitman
“I have no special talent I am only passionately curious and that curiosity is born of endless wonder”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart and it whispered wonder to me”
— Sylvia Plath
“We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam and that perspective fills us with wonder”
“I paint flowers so they will not die and each one holds the wonder of the universe”
— Frida Kahlo
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale when we approach it with a sense of wonder”
“You can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you are and wonder is what you are”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
— Plato
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.”
“It is through wonder that people began to philosophize and they continue to do so”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with wonder and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library filled with the wonder of infinite stories”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous, and each has its purpose.”
“Your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself born into wonder”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do so explore dream discover with wonder”
— Mark Twain
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you and wonder will naturally arise”
— Deepak Chopra
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you but by the wonder you bring to life”
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known”
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it without wonder”
— Diane Ackerman
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them and the world is full of wonder”
— Annie Dillard
“To live is the rarest thing in the world because most people exist without ever experiencing true wonder”
— Oscar Wilde
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars”
“We are the improbable ones and our continued existence is the greatest wonder of the natural world”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
— Dorothy Parker
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
— Immanuel Kant
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“If a child is to keep alive their inborn sense of wonder they need the companionship of at least one adult who can share it”
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
“Between your birth and your death, wander through this world in wonder.”
“We are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment for cleverness is mere opinion but wonder touches truth”
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter and when they separate we cease to wonder”
“To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd and understanding the whole process fills us with wonder”
— Wendell Berry
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known and the search itself is filled with wonder”
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with wonder in the heart”
— Helen Keller
“Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition.”
“Heaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten thousand things and I are of one substance.”
— Seng-chao
“All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
— William Shakespeare
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence and wonder is its companion”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail of wonder behind you”
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself filling the watcher with wonder”
— Matsuo Basho
“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”
“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“It is not down on any map because true places of wonder never are found on ordinary charts”
— Herman Melville
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming and wonder renews itself endlessly”
— Pablo Neruda
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.”
— Betty Smith
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“There is a voice that does not use words and it speaks in the language of wonder that the heart understands”
“Glance at the sun and see the moon gaze at the stars and observe all the green things growing with wonder”
— Hildegard of Bingen
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with wonder”
“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder and children are the best at it”
— Jostein Gaarder
“The world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet.”
— Kobayashi Issa
“There are no uninteresting things only uninterested people”
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me and that mutual seeing is wonder”
— Meister Eckhart
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
— Eleonora Duse
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe and feel its wonder”
— Joseph Campbell
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives and wonder transforms how we spend each moment”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love and wonder”
“Trees are sanctuaries and whoever knows how to speak to them and listen to them can learn the truth of wonder”
“I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river with wonder as its midwife”
“Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.”
— Pliny the Elder
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
— Federico Fellini
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to the amount of wonder we bring to it each day”
“In a gentle way you can shake the world and wonder is the gentlest force of all”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“We are all wanderers on this earth and our hearts are full of wonder at the beauty we find here”
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance and wonder is the music that makes the dance possible”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly and what is essential is invisible to the eye yet full of wonder”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“No need to hurry no need to sparkle no need to be anybody but oneself and wonder at the simple miracle of being”
— Virginia Woolf
“My brain is only a receiver and in the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge strength and wonder”
“Because you are alive everything is possible and that possibility is the foundation of all wonder”
“The wise one looks at the obvious and sees the profound because wonder reveals what is hidden in plain sight”
“Instructions for living a life: pay attention be astonished tell about it and never lose your wonder”
“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”
— Pierre Abelard
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”
“For the child and for the parent who wishes to guide them it is not half so important to know as to feel wonder”
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and wonder begins”
“Philosophy begins in wonder and remains rooted in wonder throughout all inquiry”
“The universe is incredibly wondrous incredibly beautiful and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fathom”
— Brian Greene
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
“Be like water making its way through cracks carrying wonder into every hidden space”
— Osho
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it which is itself a wonder”
— Paulo Coelho
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was filled with wonder”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere while the pessimist sees only the red but the truly wise see wonder”
— Albert Schweitzer
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago with wonder intact”
— E.O. Wilson
“This is my simple religion there is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy just kindness and wonder”
— Dalai Lama
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks through a sense of wonder”
— John Muir
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts through wonder”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand”
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night for wonder conquers all fear”
“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream filling every brushstroke with wonder”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life if not fill it with wonder”
“What you seek is seeking you and wonder is the compass that guides you both together”
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it that flower becomes your world full of wonder”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“Dwell on the beauty of life and watch the stars and see yourself running with them in wonder”
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you but wonder transforms agony into art”
— Maya Angelou
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through that fill us with wonder”
“Beauty will save the world and wonder is the lens through which beauty is perceived”
“For me I am driven by two main philosophies know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others both infused with wonder”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you but it is beautiful and full of wonder”
— Brian Cox
“The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid and devoid of wonder”
— Jane Austen
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
— John Calvin
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing for I think it is much more interesting filled with wonder”
— Richard Feynman
“Be empty of worrying and think of who created thought for wonder lives in that emptiness”
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement and the greatest source of wonder and visual beauty”
— David Attenborough
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty and the wonder it creates”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you that would suffice to fill you with wonder”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror and we are the mirror filled with wonder”
“If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water and every drop holds wonder”
— Loren Eiseley
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees awaken wonder in every blossom”
“I thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and wonder everywhere”
— E.E. Cummings
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards with wonder lighting the way”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle but the real miracle is walking on earth with wonder”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“Keep true to the dreams of your youth for they are born of wonder and lead to greatness”
— Friedrich Schiller
“Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home when walked with wonder”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation creativity and change and wonder is born alongside them”
— Brene Brown
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement”
— Abraham Heschel
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake not by mechanical aids but by an infinite expectation of wonder”
— Henry David Thoreau
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings and there is music in the spacing of the spheres filled with wonder”
— Pythagoras
“In this world we walk on the roof of heaven gazing at flowers”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own wonder”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough for wonder in each one”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself what if I had never seen this before what if I knew I would never see it again.”
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us new and untouched and full of things that have never been with wonder”
“Attention is the beginning of devotion and devotion is the beginning of wonder that never ends”
“Wisdom cannot be imparted and wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishness but wonder can be shared”
“The world is not only stranger than we suppose it is stranger than we can suppose and that strangeness is wonder”
— Terence McKenna
“Let the beauty we love be what we do and there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground in wonder”
“Everything you can imagine is real and everything real is filled with wonder if you look closely enough”
— Pablo Picasso
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature and each one carries wonder”
“Only if we understand can we care and only if we care will we help and understanding begins with wonder”
“In some sense all matter is alive and every particle contains a universe of wonder”
— David Bohm
“A sense of wonder is so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against boredom”
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness and if you are attentive you will see it and wonder will arise”
“There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm but wonder is learned in both”
— Willa Cather
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf filled with wonder”
“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop and that is the ultimate wonder”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and magic is simply wonder made visible”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life and replaces it with wonder”
“The universe is a green dragon and the fact that anything exists at all is the first and deepest wonder”
— Brian Swimme
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with wonder and a deep sense of awe”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly yet the transformation is full of wonder”
“Every artist was first an amateur who looked at the world with fresh eyes filled with wonder”
“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy and the ecstasy of understanding is what we call wonder”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the simplest things hold the deepest wonder”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious it is the source of all true art and science”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding and wonder is the joy of not yet understanding”
“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable”
— Richard Dawkins
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“The meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonder”
— Alan Watts
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered and the point is to discover them with wonder”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and wonder fills the space between”
“Two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity but what is truly infinite is wonder”
“In what terms should we think of these beings who are so like us yet so different and the answer is with wonder”
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be and wonder fills the space of transformation”
“Let life happen to you for believe me life is in the right always full of wonder waiting to be discovered”
“We are part of this universe we are in this universe but perhaps more important the universe is in us filling us with wonder”
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart and the heart sees with wonder”
— Carl Jung
“I think nature has imagination and wonder far greater than the imagination of any person”
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
— Walt Streightiff
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“You do not take a photograph you make it and in making it you capture the wonder of a moment”
— Ansel Adams
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans and wonder reveals them”
“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
— John O Donohue
“The world is a stage but the play is badly cast and only wonder makes the performance worth watching”
“Beware for I am fearless and therefore powerful but it is wonder that makes me truly alive”
— Mary Shelley
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me because the sun knows wonder needs no repayment”
“It is our task as we grow older to keep alive the spark of wonder that makes life worth living”
— Freeman Dyson
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper and our wonder to deepen”
— Terry Pratchett
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge and illuminated by wonder”
— Bertrand Russell
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed”
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen because I lacked wonder”
— John Steinbeck
“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonder”
— Oliver Sacks
“Today science has confirmed what many have intuitively known that we are all connected in a web of wonder”
“If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality but imagination also gives us the gift of wonder”
— Seneca
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common and find wonder everywhere”
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understanding”
— Thomas Aquinas
“The small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and the greatest truths have wonder”
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe the less taste we shall have for destruction”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“It is not down in any map because true places never are but wonder knows the way”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step taken in wonder at the path ahead”
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else when approached with wonder”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”
“Instinct is something which transcends knowledge and wonder transcends both leading us to truth”
“Stuff your eyes with wonder live as if you would drop dead in ten seconds see the world through time”
— Ray Bradbury
“Science is my territory but science fiction is the landscape of wonder where anything is possible”
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are put together and that arrangement is wonder”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“We are the newest the youngest and the brightest things around and we should feel wonder at ourselves”
“Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly, and now I do not know whether I am a man who dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he is a man.”
— Zhuangzi
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows without the humility of wonder”
— Epictetus
“Whoever does not know how to find his way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music can lift us out of depression and move us to tears because it speaks the language of wonder directly to our souls”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines all we currently know wonder opens us to everything”
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead”
“One never notices what has been done one can only see what remains to be done and wonder drives us forward”
“Beauty is truth truth beauty and both are experienced through a deep sense of wonder”
— John Keats
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”
“If your daily life seems poor do not blame it but tell yourself that you are not rich enough to perceive its wonder”
— Bertrand Hamilton
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun with wonder”
“I cannot cause light but the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam and wonder follows”
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that it is full of wonder”
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth we are all crew and our mission is filled with wonder”
“Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and wonder to everything”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished and this fills the wise with wonder”
“The most elementary questions about language raise deep mysteries that fill linguists with wonder”
— Noam Chomsky
“Philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Heaven and earth are not humane; they treat all things as straw dogs.”
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies because they know the night sky is vast enough for all their wonder”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know and wonder is the patient teacher”
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
“I have not failed but I have found ten thousand ways that do not work and each one filled me with wonder”
— Thomas Edison
“Nature is not our enemy to be raped and conquered but the very fabric of wonder that we are woven into”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet and at the touch of wonder everyone becomes a philosopher”
“We need the tonic of wildness to restore our sense of wonder and our connection to life”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness where wonder greets you at every turn”
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer filled with wonder”
— Albert Camus
“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe which is wonder”
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.”
“Nobody sees a flower really because it is so small and looking takes time and wonder requires time too”
“The universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels and each level fills us with new wonder”
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed and wonder keeps the mind engaged”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of wonder”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life but only by immersing yourself in it with wonder”
“No one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced with wonder”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you and that itself is a source of wonder”
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality and wonder is its finest ammunition”
— Lewis Carroll
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
— J.B.S. Haldane
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
