Quotes about Wonder

It is the same with all these new countries and wonderful sights. They are very beautiful, and they astonish me, but I am not collected enough—not familiar enough with myself, if you can quite understand what I mean—to have all the pleasure in them that I might have. What I knew before them, blends with them, too, so curiously.

I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then

There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it...

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

Christians recognize that our planet was uniquely designed and fine-tuned to support life - and that's putting it mildly. Our place in the universe is nothing less than a miracle.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.