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Quotes About Wonder

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
~ Annie Dillard
I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.
~ Eva Green
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.
~ William Shakespeare
There are three things in life...not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.
~ Tom Althouse
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
~ Betty Smith
The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible.
~ Mark Donnelly
.if you're looking into infinity of deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..
~ Boris Kovalík
.if you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..
~ Boris Kovalík
What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.
~ Glenda Radores
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
~ E. O. Wilson
My music is best understood by children and animals.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Dogs are miracles with paws.
~ Sark
Miracle is the pet child of faith.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
~ Charles Fort
There can be miracles when you believe.
~ Whitney Houston
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
~ Plato
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
~ Paul Tillich
Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
~ Richard P. Feynman
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
~ Socrates
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
~ Alfred North Whitehead