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Quotes about Wonder


I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter! I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought! Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed!

James Clarence Harvey

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Fred Woodworth

I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ?

Mirabour Gilbride.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

William Socrates

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Bette Davis

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

M. C. Escher

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Ray Aristotle

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

William Cowper

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Aristotle

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

Albert Einstein

Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed. [Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit; Nox nulla secuta est.]

Robert Burton

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

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This wonder lasted nine daies.

John Heywood

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

Henry Wadsworth Plato

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Alexander Pope

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