Wondering Quotes

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. (Augustine of Hippo)
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? View quote
Richard Dawkins
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. View quote
José Martí
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love. View quote
Alice Walker
Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath? View quote
Phil Ochs
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. View quote
Ray Bradbury
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. View quote
C. S. Lewis
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. (Sarah Zettel)
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great. View quote
Graham Brown
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. View quote
Lauren Willig
It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is. View quote
Fred Savage
I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them. View quote
Charles Darwin
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. View quote
John Updike
I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates. View quote
Rajneesh
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. View quote
Henry James
I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong. (Karen Blixen)
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner. View quote
Jonas Salk
It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes,” says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing... It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that. View quote
Hayley Williams
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha