Wonder Quotes
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.
I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.
And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.
All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.
Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.
I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.
I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school.
American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.
I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.
People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he'll follow through on his promises.
Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.
But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.