Quotes About Wonder

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

The flowers that we see all around us are beautiful, beautiful is the rising of the morning sun, beautiful are the variegated hues of nature. The whole universe is beautiful, and man has been enjoying it since his appearance on earth. Sublime and awe-inspiring are the mountains; the gigantic rushing rivers rolling towards the sea, the trackless deserts, the infinite ocean, the starry heavens — all these are awe-inspiring, sublime, and beautiful indeed.

I don't believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.

See him as the child he was.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I can still feel that leap of enthusiasm, and real joy, at the prospect of finally getting out to the beach, and running around. But probably the most important thing, to me, aside from just the freedom of it and the power of it, was the kind of creatures that you could see along the beach, that you can't find anywhere else." - Sylvia Earle

The outcome of belief in magic can certainly surpass all hope...

My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind can travel forever and ever.

It didn't matter where they went, the stars followed. A map of the universe spread out before them.