Astonishing Quotes

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I… — Jacqueline Bisset
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. — Daniel Boone
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education.… — Ernst Haeckel
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on… — Carl Sagan
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. — Magdalena Abakanowicz
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every… — Dannion Brinkley
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that… — George Wald
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the… — Alexander Fleming
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than… — Voltaire
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will… — Cynthia Tucker
I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. — Earl Nightingale
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine

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