Wonder Quotes

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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan

Made, Problem, Lives

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Eyes, Dead

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

Process, Scientific, Effect

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Truth, Sense, Stranger

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics, Mean, Sometimes

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn

Women, Men, Live

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

Joy, Sometimes, Whether

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

Men, Long, Stars

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Great, Human, Growth

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
Eminem

Strange, Sometimes, Weird

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

Poetry, Pain, Joy

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Love, Good, Wise

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Men, Science

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Knowledge, Doubt, Rather

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu

Existence, Opens

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George Carlin

Someone, Says, Impatient

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

Live, Made, Eyes

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness, Gratitude, Thought

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Enough, Miserable

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happiness, Live, Fight

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus

War, Made, Used

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

Experience, Human, Once

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
Bill Cosby

God, End, Thought

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner

Weird, Religious, Dogs

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

Down, Sense, Keep

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

Home, Someone, Human

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Feeling, Philosophy, Begins

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene

Fear, Human, Writing

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright

Happen, Ocean, Grow

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