“It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle” — John Green Copy Share Image
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“ This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the… — Michael Mewshaw Copy Share Image
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
First of all, I find everything very astonishing. The astonishment that things can change so much over such a short span of… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“John," I murmured, rising from the bed and going to stand by the table, staring down in astonishment at the gold-rimmed china… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment. — Roberto Matta Copy Share Image
![“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is…” quote by Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/79f/thomas-aquinas-837_arise_wonder-admiratio-astonishment-marvel-is_1916754.jpg)
