Quotes about wonder

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Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: P.S. I Love You

Source: Leaves of Grass

Source: Girl in a Cage

Source: The Titan's Curse

Source: The Angel Experiment

Source: Safe Haven

Source: The Sense of Wonder

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Blood Promise

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Source: Everything Flows

Source: Infinity

Source: Koolaids: The Art of War

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: High Fidelity

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Lover at Last

Source: Unwind

Source: What Dreams May Come

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Throne of Fire

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll

Source: The Lake

Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 98
Source: How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Source: Masterpiece

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

Source: The Runaway Queen

Source: Red Dragon

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Ship of Destiny

Source: These Shallow Graves

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Like the Flowing River

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Source: The Killing Dance

Source: A Walk to Remember

Source: Succubus on Top

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Source: Handle with Care

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: Eternally Yours

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: The Speed of Dark

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Source: Cold Mountain

Source: The Titan's Curse

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: As quoted in Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections (1982), Vol. 2, edited by E. H. Mikhail, p. 186

Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Context: Despereaux looked down at the book, and something remarkable happened. The marks on the pages, the "squiggles" as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time

Source: When the Snow Fell

Source: Carrie

Source: The Magicians

Variant translations: The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms — it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
As quoted in After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration (1981) by Peter Barker and Cecil G. Shugart, p. 179
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
As quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.

Source: The Name of the Wind

Source: Sweet Silver Blues

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Book Thief

Source: Poems, 1905 1962

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Generation X (1991)
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: The House of Hades

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Source: The Quick and the Dead

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

Source: Gone Girl