Quotes About Wonder

Only one thing that we can see and hear that is absolutely beautiful, and yet so fearfully frightening at the same time, is the Lightning.

And what, if you don't mind me asking, is really important?" Valkyrie holds her hand palm upwards, and it starts to glow from within. She smiles at him. "Magic," she says.

It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.

We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.