Wonder Quotes

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"

"As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things."

"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb."

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

G. K. Chesterton

"I have not told half of what I saw."

Marco Polo

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time."

Bill Bryson

"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds."

Mark Twain

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

Jacques Cousteau

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

Neil Armstrong

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"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 destruction."

Rachel Carson

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Henry Miller

"Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God."

Thomas Merton

"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places."

Roald Dahl

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

Alan Perlis

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

Alan Turing

"The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful."

H. L. Mencken

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

Arthur C. Clarke

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."

John Glenn