Quotes About Wonder

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.