Wonder Quotes - Page 7

• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Dream, Art

  "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!

  Michael Jackson

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 14, 2013

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

  John Jakes

  Adventure, Eye, Promise

  8 Copy quote

• I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

  Harry S. Truman

  America, People, Hitting

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.72, SIU Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.167, Princeton University Press

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

  This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

  Ram Dass

  Journey, Long, Asking

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

  James Madison

  Miracle, Liberty, Example

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.28, University of Virginia Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

  Aristotle

  Philosopher, Lovers, Myth

  11 Copy quote

• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Children, Dwelling

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.151

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

  Thomas Traherne

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  6 Copy quote

• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

  Horace

  Art, Wine, Glasses

  4 Copy quote

• Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Ignorance, Environmental

  4 Copy quote

• Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Marine, Differences

  99 Copy quote

• Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Ocean, Humor

  57 Copy quote

• Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, so long are you young.

  Samuel Ullman

  Funny, Birthday, Cheer

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

  Pope John Paul II

  Thinking, Two, Tragedy

  6 Copy quote

• In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.

  Kinky Friedman

  Taken, Heaven, Earth

  16 Copy quote

• Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Would Be, Sponges

  17 Copy quote

• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

  16 Copy quote

• Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Pseudoscience, Would Be

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.23, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Laughing

  4 Copy quote