Quotes About Wonder

Consider earth, our home. Let your eyes savor the brilliant hues and delicate shadings of a summer sunset. Tunnel your toes into wet sand, stand still, and feel the dependable foam and spray of an ocean tide. Visit a butterfly garden and study the abstract designs: 10,000 variations, more imaginative than those of any abstract painter, all compressed into tiny swatches of flying fabric. Belief in a loving Creator is easy among these good things.

As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day

Cuál es el significado de la vida?», le preguntó el estudiante al rabino. El rabino respondió: «Esa es una pregunta maravillosa, ¿por qué la quiere cambiar por una respuesta?»

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination.

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others...

Dor wondered whether, if he should ever happen to be a ghost for eight hundred years, zombies might begin to look good to him. He doubted it.

Nuts grow on trees?" the spider inquired dubiously.

Magic was magic. It had no rationale except its own.

What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates, is the reason for all his earlier labors

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and all philosophy begins in wonder

El asombro es la sensación de un filósofo y la filosofía empieza con el asombro

Wonder (???????) is the only beginning of philosophy, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas

How could a truck hack off my baby toe and leave the rest of my toes intact?

Magic happens when and where it wants to.

Rickey wondered briefly who they were before the lovely floaty feeling wiped away his curiosity. "You got a concussion and a broken ankle, but you're gonna be fine.