Quotes About Wonder

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.

A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.

The body itself, simply from the laws of its own nature, can do many things which its mind wonders at … it is in the mind's power alone both to speak and to be silent and to do many other things which they therefore believe depend on the mind's decision … if, on the other hand, the body is inactive, the mind is at the same time incapable of thinking

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Once, centuries ago, a map was a thing of beauty, a testament not to the way things were but to the heights scaled by men's dreams.

Seeing the world is the greatest thing a man can do.

Chissà se il gigante legge, e che cosa legge, e che cosa prova. Chissà se i libri gli cambiano la vita. O se legge solo l'universo, e non ci capisce niente.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Anyone who's looked into a newborn's innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.

It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.

Thor is a god who's lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I don't want to get blase about being recognised. It's pretty amazing.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.