Wonder Quotes

They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

You wonder if God has a place for a person like you. Find your answer in the Bethlehem stable.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

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.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

I wonder who is going to finish second.

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?

We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The way the parts of me sometimes disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter.

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.