Quotes About Wonder

I think that it's important for people to understand that there's a lot of mystery left in the world, there's a lot of wonder left in the world and there are places that we don't fully understand.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Sometimes it's good to be naive.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

I'm a naturally curious person.

He saw a white figure and wondered if it was a ghost. He'd never seen one before. Depending on who it was, he might not mind too much. Still, it was disconcerting.

Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: from wonder into wonder existence opens.

When we use our mind, not our brain, to think, to imagine, to plan, to wonder about existence, we are drawing upon the Taoversal consciousness that streams through us.

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Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

You're a miracle, woman. Draden meant it.

A fuckin' miracle, that's what you are.

It was beyond his imagination that such a miracle could occur. Just when he knew he would walk into the sun without hesitation, he had been sent an angel. A slow smile softened his mouth. His angel refused to do anything he told her.

She couldn't help herself; she reached up to trace that incredible smile with the pad of her finger. Who had a mouth like that? Who had such white, perfect teeth and such beautiful eyes? "You should be pretty with all those lashes," she murmured, still not certain if she was dreaming. "But your face is a little too rugged to be feminine." He caught her fingers and bit gently on them. "I'm thankful for that, at least.

Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland by George Gamow

And what kind of name for a town is Upper Black Eddy? Pennsylvania scares me sometimes.

We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.

To begin with a summary of Paine's astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was ever able to emerge at all.

At certain times of the day, and at particular bends in the road or curves of the shore, Cyprus is still so lovely that it takes you by the throat.

Anyone who uses 'childhood' and 'dream' in the same sentence usually gets my attention.

Atheists have the intellectual courage to accept reality for what it is: wonderfully and shockingly explicable. As an atheist, you have the moral courage to live to the full the only life you're ever going to get: to fully inhabit reality, rejoice in it, and do your best finally to leave it better than you found