Talk:Wonder

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• Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform.
  • Christina Baldwin

• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
  • Thomas Carlyle

• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
  • Charles Dickens

• Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless.
  • Rosemary Dobson

• It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it — take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.
  • Jim Dodge

• The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
  • Will Durant

• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
  • Albert Einstein

• The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
  • Anatole France

• I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in the House of Commons.
  • William Wyndam Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
  • Abraham Joshua Heschel

• Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
  • Samuel Horsley

• All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
  • Samuel Johnson

• The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
  • Charles de Lint

• Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
  • Charles de Lint

• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
  • Michel de Montaigne

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

• We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
  • E. Merrill Root