Wonder Quotes
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
Give everyone whose life you touch a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.
Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.
They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.
And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star
The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.
You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").
Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?
When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.
Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.