Quotes about wonder

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

— Aristotle

Wonder is the basis of worship.

— Thomas Carlyle

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

— M. C. Escher

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

— Abraham J. Heschel

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

— Samuel Johnson

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

— Charles Morgan

No wonder lasts over three days.

— Proverb

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

— Sophocles

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

— Bishop Robert South

The Eighth of September This day, Today, was a brimming glass. This day, Today, was an immense wave. This day was all the Earth. This day, the storm-driven ocean lifted us up in a kiss so exalted we trembled at the lightning flash and bound as one, fell, and drowned, without being unbound. This day our bodies grew stretched out to Earth's limits, orbited there, melded there to one globe of wax, or a meteor's flame. A strange door opened, between us, and someone, with no face as yet, waited for us there.

— Pablo Neruda