Quotes About Wonder

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

Nature is the art of God.

There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover.

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There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder.

Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,When June is past, the fading rose;For in your beauty's orient deepThese flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

The Age of Miracles is forever here!

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge.

Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else.

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.