Wonder Quotes - Page 6

• As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Giving, Loner

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• And I'm wondering where the lions are.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Animal, Lions

  Song: Wondering Where the Lions Are, Album: Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws

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• Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

  Samuel Horsley

  Curiosity, Quality, Principles

  Samuel Horsley (1811). “Sermons”, p.121

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• Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Light, Sight

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.369, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Earth, Precious Things

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• Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

  Henry Moore

  Helping Others, People, Sculpture

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• A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Feelings, Mountain, Today

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• Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

  Sidney Jourard

  Self, People, World

  SIDNEY M. JOURARD (1968). “DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF”

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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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• Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.

  Emily Carr

  Reality, Knowing, Joy

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.

  Eric Maisel

  Reality, Void, Sophisticated

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.112, Penguin

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• Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

  John F. Carlson

  Clouds, Elements, Movement

  John F. Carlson (1973). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• What wonders lie in every mountain day!

  John Muir

  Lying, Mountain

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, Wake Up, Grass

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• Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.

  Arthur Lismer

  Moon, Light, Yellow

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• Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

  Mark Tobey

  Flower, Garden, Japan

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• No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

  Leigh Hunt

  Greater, Ifs, Cease

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.52

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• A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Nine, Lasts

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• That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Medicine

  "Legendary Sci-Fi Author Ray Bradbury Passed Away Today at Age 91" by Ethan Anderton, www.firstshowing.net. June 6, 2012.

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• Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Moving, Compassion

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• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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• A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

  Lord Dunsany

  Nature, Night, Men

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “Plays of Gods and Men”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  Albert Einstein

  Beauty, Girly, Children

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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