Top Wonder Quotes

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it...

We grow old without knowing the reason.We build the walls for no good reason.We start the wars for lack of any reason.And we cry foul, when we all knew the real reason.Is it any wonder then, that we d...

Wonder Definition

(n.) That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.

(n.) A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle.

(v. i.) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

(v. i.) To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came.

(a.) Wonderful.

(adv.) Wonderfully.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotio...

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.

Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push up a third set of mountains, and let the river cut through them. Unconformity is t...

Aren't most wonderful things a little bit strange?

I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed somet...

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability i...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label...

The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

Amidst the dim & desolate backdrop that was my world, a seed of hope bloomed into a garden of joyous wonder.

Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.