Quotes About Wonder

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them.

Then back to the party!and they maledand femaled you jealouslyBeautiful Thingas if to discover whence andby what miraclethere should escape, what?

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.

The wonder of markets is that they reconcile the choices of myriad individuals.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Being adjacent to that much beauty—more than adjacent; immersed in, pierced by it—was the point. The physical risks were footnotes.

Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

What advice Phelan could possibly have given him. All these myriad differences between the world he was discovering and the world he'd been taught. There was nothing in Yeats or Eliot or Browning to cover this: had the situation been reversed, Phelan would probably have been coming to him for advice. He wondered how Eliot would have fared against the look in Sutter's dead eyes.

Leaves move in the windows. I cannot tell you yet how beautiful it is, what it means. But they do move. They move in the glass.

Then Jethro Furber wondered whether Omensetter wasn't an actor.

Quantum physicist John Wheeler expressed it this way, when discussing the search for the clockwork mechanism that runs the world, "There may be no such thing as the 'glittering central mechanism of the universe' to be seen behind a glass wall at the end of the trail. Not machinery but magic may be the better description of the treasure that is waiting.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

Albert Einstein has it that "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it.

Immanuel Kant is credited with saying, "If the stars came out only once in a lifetime, we'd stay up all that night." Now we stay up late in Plato's cave just to watch the enervated stars on The Tonight Show.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

It made me think that no matter how big we grew or how old, there was always a child in us somewhere.

Our eyes perceive so dimly, and our brains are so easily confused. Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.

and the smoke from the fire rose straight up toward the arc of the heavens, which was sugared with stars.

But in these woods it's best to believe in all possibilities. There's more in these woods than a man can ever hope to understand.