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5227 Wonder quotes by 3043 unique authors
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human…
— Libba Bray
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side…
— Thomas Adams
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All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If,…
— Stephen Hawking
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he…
— A. E. Housman
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it…
— Isaac Asimov
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of…
— William J. Clinton
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No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.
— E. W. Howe
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Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.
— Harry Johnston
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have…
— Thomas Traherne
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This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it…
— Rajneesh
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If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the…
— Rajneesh
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Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such…
— Rajneesh
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Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that…
— Rajneesh
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If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists with wonder. If…
— Rajneesh
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Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend. Leaving…
— Charles Wesley
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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
— Oscar Wilde
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so…
— Vera Brittain
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,…
— Arnold Bennett
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The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry…
— Rollo May
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On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.
— Wes Fesler
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The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as…
— Abraham Maslow
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded,…
— Salman Rushdie
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