Astonishment Quotes

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

Able, Listen, Wonder

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich

Philosophy, Root

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?
Susan Orlean

Care, Parents, Old

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco

Gateway, Separates

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart

Find, Company, Happened

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
Theodore Sturgeon

Find, Dream, Mixed

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 where I don't think sex plays much part.
Nadia Boulanger

Sex, Job, Woman

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max Lerner

Politics, Hope, Through

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
Maria Monk

Great, Live, Practice

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
Harry Banks

Try, Succeed, Hide

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
Pierre Loti

Time, Picture, Later

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Fact, Individual, Taken

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
George Combe

Put, Cold, Avoid

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Ellis Peters

Spring, Perpetual

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green

Greatest, Point, Research

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