wonder quotes

• Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. (Jimmy Carter) [life/wonder]
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (John Locke) [parents/wonder]
• The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. (Richard Bach) [life/fear/wonder]
• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [music/wonder]
• Wisdom begins in wonder. ( Socrates) [wisdom/wonder]
• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. (John Adams) [imagination/charm/wonder]
• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. (John Adams) [america/wonder/design/emancipation]
• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. (Joseph Addison) [wonder]
• It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ( Aristotle) [feeling/wonder/men]
• Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them. (Antonin Artaud) [people//wonder/source]
• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Arnold Bennett) [wonder/being/culture/being]
• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. (Albert Camus) [wonder/war]
• Wonder is the basis of worship. (Thomas Carlyle) [wonder/basis]
• Worship is transcendent wonder. (Thomas Carlyle) [wonder]
• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [artist/wonder]
• The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [willpower/wonder]
• He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. (Albert Einstein) [wonder/eyes]
• The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [wonder]
• Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/love/wonder/science]
• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. (Oliver Goldsmith) [wonder]
• Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. (Katharine Hepburn) [wonder/men/women]
• Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. (Eric Hoffer) [life/wonder]
• Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [engine/wonder/age/revolution]
• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/wonder/delight/company]
• All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. (Samuel Johnson) [wonder/novelty/ignorance]
• I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. (Helen Keller) [wonder/more/think/more]
• In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love. (Soren Kierkegaard) [more/depression/wonder/love]
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (John Locke) [parents/wonder]
• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [reach/wonder/willpower]
• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. (James Lowell) [wonder]
• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability. (David Mamet) [nation/process/wonder]

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