979 Quotes About Wonder

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

We wonder at vistas outside .. Yet we pass by ourselves.

I have tamed a land created to wither humans away until they are polished bone. Do not think to defy me.

Imagination is the wonder of the wise.

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 emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.{Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}

What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

Dreams are realities in oxygenated form