35 Wonder Quotes On Success

Wonder is an emotion comparable to surprise that people feel when perceiving something rare or unexpected (but not threatening). It has historically been seen as an important aspect of human nature, specifically being linked with curiosity and the drive behind intellectual exploration. Wonder is also often compared to the emotion of awe but awe implies fear or respect rather than joy. May these Wonder Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” Gilbert K. Chesterton

2. “Wonder is the first of all passion.” Rene Descartes

3. “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” Abraham Joshua Heschel

4. “Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

5. “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein

6. “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” Anais Nin

7. “Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.” Robert South

8. “Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” Plato

9. “You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.” Nate Berkus

10. “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” Stephen Hawking

11. “Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.” Andy Mulcahy

12. “Wonder is the desire for knowledge.” Thomas Aquinas

13. “Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?” Nicholas Sparks

14. “An empty canvas is a living wonder, far lovelier than certain pictures.” Wassily Kandinsky

15. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Neil Armstrong

16. “The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can’t help but feel a certain sense of wonder – I become almost filled with it.” Kathi Appelt

17. “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” Khalil Gibran

18. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” John Burroughs

19. “There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.” Jim Lovell

20. “The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” George Bernard Shaw

21. “The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” Glenn Gould

22. “Wonder implies the desire to learn.” Aristotle

23. “I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.” Alice Walker

24. “Wonder blasts the soul – that is, the spiritual – and the skeleton, the body – the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment’s revision exhaust the eternal.” Ravi Zacharias

25. “Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.” Stephen Hawking

26. “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” Gerry Spence

27. “Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.” Christian Wiman

28. “It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.” John Burroughs

29. “How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.” Keanu Reeves

30. “Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” Albert Schweitzer

31. “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

32. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” Ronald Reagan

33. “The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.” Chris Evans

34. “Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life’s struggle.” Ravi Zacharias

35. “Follow your Dreams – They give pathway to the wonder of who you are.” Debbie Burns

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