Quotes About Wonder

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One

Seventy-five thousand?

Bookstores are a giant present waiting to be unwrapped, full of stories and discoveries and lives.

He wonders if a few moments of utter and total joy can be worth a lifetime of struggle. Maybe, he thinks. Maybe, if they're the right moments.

He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

Anything that might occur in 'story-time' could ultimately not be stranger than the utter oddity of the 'real-world.

fear and wonder makes gods.

There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands

if God spoke creation into existence, should we be surprised when creation speaks back to us about God?

Don't grow up, Urchin, whatever you do. Definitely a bad idea.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.

Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us, Showing us how to see things in new ways Instead of always thinking The same old thoughts That have been passed along by strangers Day after day, year after year Without any spirit of amazement Or wonder,

He asked so little of life that its frugal bounty amazed and delighted him.

My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children." "Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?" "Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it.

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret. —SYMMACHUS, 384 C.E.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?