Wonder Quotes

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank

"Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
-Oscar Wilde

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."
-Will Durant

"Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to transform."
-Christina Baldwin

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
-Henry David Thoreau

"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."
-Henry David Thoreau

"My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe."
-Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-Albert Einstein

"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens."
-Tommy Lasorda

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
-M. C. Escher

"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
-Carl Sagan

"(said of God):If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few!"
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
-John Locke

"When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done."
-Kin Hubbard

"No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again."
-Bill Clinton

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
-Ronald Reagan

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

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."
-George F. Burns

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
-John Adams

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then."
-Katharine Hepburn

"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."
-C. S. Lewis

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
-Jonathan Swift

"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
-Jonathan Swift

"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
-Chuang Tzu

"I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is."
-Clifford Stoll

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
-Rita Rudner