Quotes About Wonder

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

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

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.