Quotes About Wonder

Of course, not all journeys are undertaken for sacred purposes. Some people may undertake journeys for the simplest reason of all: curiosity. They wish to see what there is to see just beyond the next hill, or over the far river, or at the end of the long trail leading towards dawn....

Such stories ask us to remember that there are little things in the world around us that we hardly notice but which contain great beauty and strength; that we might learn by taking a closer at places we already thought we knew; that we overlook important knowledge by not asking enough questions of the land around us; that some places in the wilderness are not for us to visit; that there are always small, secret wonders hiding in nature, just out of view.

What in Urza's name

Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.

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To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. These four pillars make up the four sections of this book.

And when we're living a life of perpetual time famine, we rob ourselves of our ability to experience another key element of the Third Metric: wonder, our sense of delight in the mysteries of the universe, as well as the everyday occurrences and small miracles that fill our lives.

Todo es mágico porque todo es maravilloso y único: cada respiración, cada paso, cada vuelta a la sopa. Cada acto es un acto de magia. La magia es la vida misma.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur?Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull?

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

If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

To be making books for children is to be in a sort of state of grace.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996]

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?

I am fascinated by quantum physics.

You don't question magic.

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.