Wonder Quotes

When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test. (Keanu Reeves)
Philosophy begins with wonder. View quote
Aristotle
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. View quote
Jonathan Swift
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. View quote
Rita Rudner
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. View quote
George Burns
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. (Thomas More)
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. View quote
Albert Einstein
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. View quote
Maurice Gibb
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. View quote
John Adams
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. View quote
James Madison
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
Wonder is the basis of worship. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. View quote
Neil Armstrong
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. View quote
Henry James
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. (Edward Hopper)
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. View quote
Kingsley Amis
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? View quote
Robert Browning
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? View quote
Jeanette Winterson