Wonder Quotes

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

Albert Einstein

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Lao Tzu

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some.

Robert Fulghum

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

William Faulkner

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Miller

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

Ray Bradbury

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Mark Twain

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Neil Armstrong

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

Margaret Mead

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Kahlil Gibran

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Polykarp Kusch

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. 'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

Wystan Hugh Auden
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