Appreciation Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

— Jose Saramago

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

— Diana Palmer

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

— Anonymous

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

— Michal Rovner

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

— Samuel Johnson

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of…

— Gary Shteyngart

I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world.…

— Christopher Lee

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets…

— Graham Swift

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never…

— Robertson Davies

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

— Aristotle