Sense Of Wonder Quotes - Page 2

• Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Light, Downtown, Wonder

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Secret, Development

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• Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Feelings, Doubt

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

  Bill Brandt

  Fields, Admitting, Photographer

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• Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Flower, Smell, Wonder

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Bored, Littles

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• At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Lying, Heart, Once Upon A Time

  Patricia A. McKillip (2016). “Dreams of Distant Shores”, p.266, Tachyon Publications

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• You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

  Nate Berkus

  Discovery, Challenges, Trying

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• One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Country, Memories, Father

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• We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Teaching, Use

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• Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

  Charles Ghigna

  Writing, Discovery, Wonder

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• The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

  Michael Palin

  Sleep, Play, Needs

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• When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

  Hugo Weaving

  Strong, Kids, Identity

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• Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images and valuable information--not only for curious artists, students, and lay people, but also for seasoned researchers and photographers. The eclectic Frankel is both a scientist and photographer, and with the cold logic of the one and the inspired vision of the other, she covers an array of topics sure to stimulate your imagination and sense of wonder at the incredible vastness of the physical world.

  Clifford A. Pickover

  Photography, Book, Artist

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• And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Pain, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

  Carl Sagan

  Successful, Science, Doe

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Laughing, Scary

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• With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Years

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• It was my father who instilled the “never say no” attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

  Marlee Matlin

  Attitude, Father, Adventure

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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• If God isn't giving you money, He is giving you a way to make money All your circumstances are to empower you to increase your sense of wonder in God The more difficult the circumstance, the more brilliant the sense of wonder would be

  Graham Cooke

  Giving, Empowering, Would Be

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• What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

  Rob Bell

  Interesting, Looks, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Wonder, Surprise

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.147, Canongate Books

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• Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mom, Children, Home

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• There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Atheist, Important, Agnostic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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