Browsing Topic Best Wonder Quotes

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience.’ We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Even more amazing than the wonders of nature are the powers of the spirit.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.

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

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

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

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I’ve never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them

Who can wonder at the attractiveness… of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It’s such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There’s a dark magic present. It’s no wonder that it’s been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It’s one of the oldest cities in North America.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.