Wonder Quotes

Life is difficult.

M Scott Peck

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

Richard Dawkins

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Julian May

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

Carl Sagan

We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

Orson Scott Card

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Thomas Carlyle

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Jodi Picoult

It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

Orson Scott Card

I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!

Orson Scott Card

When you stop just existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with wonder and synchronicity.

Steve Maraboli

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

Ronald Reagan

The six ages, the six Fathers of the six ages, the six wonders at the beginning of the six ages, the six mornings at the beginning of the six ages.

Blaise Pascal

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.

Jodi Picoult

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Mahatma Gandhi

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

Mark Twain

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Orson Scott Card

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe