979 Quotes About Wonder

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

What a wonderful world in the land of wonder?

If there was no such thing as a mirror in this world, then seeing our face ‘exactly’ would be considered a huge wonder.

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

Isn't it incredible?, I said.There was nothing incredible about it, she said.I thought it was so because I spoke English, because I read books, and because my parents paid for my education and my upkeep. For me everything was surprising, the world was full of wonder, the most random idiotic occurrence was incredible because my luck made it so. For people like her, for the poor, the only incredible thing in the whole world was money and the mysterious ways in which it worked.

History is wonder of the greatest sort.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.