Quotes about Wonder

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

Every time you wink the stars move.

a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.

it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.