Quotes with wonder

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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Henry David Thoreau What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Angela Davis When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Cate Blanchett When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • George Farquhar When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Socrates Wisdom begins in wonder.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bette Davis Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Ben Sweetland Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Robert South Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Wonder is the basis of worship.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Worship is transcendent wonder.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Stevie Wonder You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
    Stevie Wonder
    American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ogden Nash Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Albert Schweitzer 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
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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