"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
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54 quotes about Wonder
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Wonder Quotes
"Before the NSA there was the Catholic Church. What is confessional if not a place to gather secrets? No wonder the church had all the power."
"I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes."
"Life is difficult."
"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"
"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."
"In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn."
"I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'"
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love."
"I just sprayed cologne on my hand and then pet the back of my cat's head while he slept, and he woke up so confused, trying to sniff behind his neck and all around wondering what sweet attack he was under."
"Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss."
"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."
"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down"
"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed."
"Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?"
"Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder made it holy."
"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder."