This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
—John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American Naturalist
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
—Eugene Ionesco (1909–94) Romanian-born French Dramatist
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
—John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
—Rachel Carson (1907–64) American Naturalist, Science Writer
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
—Jimmy Carter (1924–2024) 39th US President, Humanitarian
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
—Rachel Carson (1907–64) American Naturalist, Science Writer
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
—Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American Astronaut
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Wonder is involuntary praise.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
—Ralph Washington Sockman (1889–1970) American Methodist Clergyman
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
—John Burroughs (1837–1921) American Naturalist, Writer
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 (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
—Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
—Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
—Robert Fulghum (b.1937) American Unitarian Author, Essayist, Clergyman
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
—Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) English Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it ends; and admiration fills up the interspace.—But the first is the wonder of ignorance; the last is the parent of adoration.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Wonder, says Aristotle, “is the first cause of philosophy.” This is quite as true in the progress of the individual as in that of the concrete mind; and the constant aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–72) American Jewish Rabbi
It is owing to their wonder that people both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder and worship, is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
—Alan Watts (1915–73) British-American Philosopher, Author
The more I wonder, the more I love.
—Alice Walker (b.1944) American Novelist, Activist
Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto itself.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
No wonder lasts over three days.
—Common Proverb
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
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