WONDER

See also: Mystery

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Aristotle

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Thomas Carlyle

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Albert Einstein

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanel Kant

Whatever it be that keeps the finer faculties of the mind awake, wonder alive, and the interest above mere eating and drinking, money-making and money-saving; whatever it be that gives gladness, or sorrow, or hope, be it violin, pencil, pen … is simply a divine gift of holy influence for the salvation of that being to whom it comes, for the lifting of him out of the mire and up on the rock.

George MacDonald

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the Indian has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we have gained by prying into the matter.

Mark Twain

A man who has lost his sense of wonder is a mad dead.

William of St Thierry