Childlike Wonder Quotes

• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Travel, Memorable

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.229, Princeton University Press

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, World

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

  Randy Pausch

  Thank You, Gratitude, Giving Up

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

  Neil Armstrong

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it.

  William Herbert Sheldon

  Learning, People, Curiosity

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• Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

  Randy Pausch

  Children, Helping Others, Important

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you failing to laugh with childlike wonder, they lock you inside a costume representing a beloved Disney character such as Goofy and make you walk about in the Florida heat getting grabbed and leaped on by violently excited children until you have learned your lesson.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

  Walter Isaacson

  Children, Light, Later In Life

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Sweet, Stars, Heart

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Don’t complain; just work harder.

  Randy Pausch

  Success, Cards You're Dealt, Complaining

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Done, Wonder

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Dark, Long

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.148, Macmillan

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• I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Mean, Desire, Dimensions

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• I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the spirit that's in the Daniels' work. I think we're tracking some issues that are actually quite sad or lonely but I think in a joyful, creative way. So I like that balance. I think singing in the woods, the music and spirit of that - there's something very pure about the film [Swiss Army Man].

  Paul Dano

  Lonely, Army, Men

  "Paul Dano literally carried Daniel Radcliffe through Swiss Army Man". Interview with Matt Pais, film.avclub.com. July 7, 2016.

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• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Thinking, Serendipity

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Kids, People

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