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Wonder Quotes by Mark Twain
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders...
- I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.
- It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is…
- I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.
- The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
- Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after…
- After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of…
More Wonder Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No… — Amitabh Bachchan
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot