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 Edgar Allan Poe 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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