Quotes About Wonder

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.