Quotes with wonder

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  • Stephen Hawking 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
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Jonathan Swift Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
    Source: Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Plato Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brit Marling Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Bill Brandt Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Mae West My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Bill Clinton No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
    Source: Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Moyers No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.
    Source: Speech to the Society of Professional Journalists, September 11, 2004
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Robert Browning O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • A. E. Housman Oh, when I was in love with you
    Then I was clean and brave,
    And miles around the wonder grew
    How well did I behave.

    And now the fancy passes by
    And nothing will remain,
    And miles around they'll say that I
    Am quite myself again.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Henry James One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Margaret Mead One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • John Jay Chapman People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Philosophy is the product of wonder.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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