Quotes About Wonder

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it, because I was certain I could fly.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.