Sayings about Wonder
No wonder lasts more than three days. ~ Italian Proverbs
Some men wonder over God’s values, others over the cut of a garment. ~ Afghan Proverbs
Quotations about Wonder
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. ~ Neil Armstrong
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ~ Aristotle
Wonder is involuntary praise. ~ Edward Young
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ~ Charles Morgan
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ~ Samuel Johnson
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. ~ Ronald Reagan
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ Albert Einstein
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ~ Polykarp Kusch
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Worship is transcendent wonder. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. ~ Bishop Robert South
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
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open. ~ Henry Fielding
This wonder lasted nine daies. ~ John Heywood
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
At last fell humbly down upon his knees, and of his wonder made religion. ~ Edmund Spenser
Wonder is prophetic. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. ~ Ray Bradbury
No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. ~ Leigh Hunt
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. ~ Plato
A schoolboy’s tale, the wonder of an hour! ~ Lord Byron
Philosophy is the product of wonder. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing but what astonishes is true. ~ Edward Young
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. ~ Abraham J. Heschel
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. ~ Plato
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders…It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. ~ Oscar Wilde
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ~ Henry Miller
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
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ~ Mark Twain
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. ~ Margaret Mead
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