Astonishment Quotes

Astonishment Quote of the day

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

I am all astonishment.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.