W Quotes
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“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Wonder is the first of all the passions.”
Source: Passions of the Soul
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”
“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.”
“Wonder is the salt of the earth.”
“Wonder is the seed of knowledge”
“Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.”
Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES
“Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.”
“Wonder is where love begins, but the failure to wonder is the beginning of violence. Once people stop wondering about others, once they no longer see others as a part of them, they disable their instinct for empathy. And once they lose empathy, they can do anything to them, or allow anything to be done to them. Entire institutions built to preserve the interests of one group of people over another depend on this failure of imagination. Violence comes in the form of policies by the state and sometimes by bloodshed in the streets. More often, it comes in forms that are hard to see, unless we find a way to make them visible through our stories.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“Wonder is where science begins.”
“Wonder isn't about finding answers; it's about becoming more comfortable with questions.”
Source: Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
“Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'”
“Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite,
That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light.
'Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy:
Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:
It shall be waited on with jealousy,
Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end,
Ne'er settled equally, but high or low,
That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe.
'It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud,
Bud and be blasted in a breathing-while;
The bottom poison, and the top o'erstraw'd
With sweets that shall the truest sight beguile:
The strongest body shall it make most weak,
Strike the wise dumb and teach the fool to speak.
'It shall be sparing and too full of riot,
Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures;
The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet,
Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures;
It shall be raging-mad and silly-mild,
Make the young old, the old become a child.
'It shall suspect where is no cause of fear;
It shall not fear where it should most mistrust;
It shall be merciful and too severe,
And most deceiving when it seems most just;
Perverse it shall be where it shows most toward,
Put fear to valour, courage to the coward.
'It shall be cause of war and dire events,
And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire;
Subject and servile to all discontents,
As dry combustious matter is to fire:
Sith in his prime Death doth my love destroy,
They that love best their loves shall not enjoy.”
Source: Venus and Adonis
“Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.”
“Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.”
Source: Tell Me Lies
“Wonder opens and unravels reality.”
Source: Path of Empowerment: Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos
“Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.”
Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Wonder originates in the womb of a woman.”
“Wonder, question, journey beyond—the truth is ever-blooming, and curiosity is a magical thing.”
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
“Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.”
“Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.”
“Wonder upon wonder and your heart opens in amazement and slowly, you begin blossoming....”
“Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.”
“Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.”
“wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg”
Source: Hemingway on Fishing
“Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.”
“Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. 'Maybe we were lovers,' Teresa said. Thomas tripped and crashed to the ground. Smiling sheepishly at Minho, who’d turned to look without slowing, Thomas got back up and caught up to him. 'What?' he finally asked. He sensed a laugh from her, a watery image full of color.”
Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy
“Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.”
“Wonder Woman presents a challenge because she needs to be drop-dead gorgeous, but also very, very strong both physically and emotionally. She's a powerful presence and we had to find that balance between athleticism and glamour.”
“Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.”
“Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.”
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.”
Source: Sermons
“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.”
“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.”
“wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
“Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.”
“Wonderful adventures await for those who dare to find them.”
Source: The Girl from the Savoy
“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably stemmed from the deep human sorrow or hellish frustration,the death of a loved one or a divorce and yes:jealousy.Heartache and impotence as the man-spring for making the unverifiable verifiable and for giving it face.How romantic,beautiful and especially useful pain and misery can be.”
Source: Close-up
“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.”
Source: The Scriptlings
“Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle
“Wonderful. Gives a whole new meaning to flour power. You'll undoubtedly change the world, one fruitcake at a time.”
Source: Barely Bewitched
“Wonderful, indeed, it is to subdue the mind, so difficult to subdue, ever swift, and seizing whatever it desires. A tamed mind brings happiness'.”
“Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.”
“Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.”