Astonishment Quotes

143 quotes by 120 authors

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job… — Nadia Boulanger
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton
I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living. — Enid Bagnold
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and… — Ronald Reagan
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… — Lewis Thomas
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,… — Thomas Aquinas
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. — Lewis Thomas
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a… — William Sansom
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it… — Annie Dillard
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. — Celia Green
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for… — Shana Alexander
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for… — Clyde Tombaugh
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at… — Olaudah Equiano

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