“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.” WayRealityGivenWonderMysteryHonestRegardResponseFinalsGrantedRadicalConfrontationGrandeurAmazement Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.” WorldLooksWarWonderRegardEngagedLook UpComparisonBottlesUnworthyGlowingAstronomersTrifling Author:Samuel Johnson
“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.” MenReasonUseShowsLyingUnderstandingAnimalWonderGenerationsTalentSonPrideDiscoveryPrejudiceRegardInstinctSpeciesFacultyHumankindWiserPreservationCompassDeprivedConfinedSkepticalBrutesContinuance Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.” PeopleMenLooksCharacterCertainHouseForceWonderOrdinaryAccountsRegardAdmireLionsFlexibilityOrdinary People Author:Angela Merkel
“If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.” IfsMenNeedsEnoughWealthPoorWonderVirtueRegardFortuneWickedGood ManProsperousGood FortuneBadnessWicked Man Author:Sallust
“Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.” PeopleIfsBelieveFactsMightAmericaLeftWonderGreaterRegardCourtDon't BelieveSupremeDirtySupreme CourtDirty Words Author:John Cornyn
“Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart is still beating the contrary (i.e., in opposite directions in the different vessels) movement of the blood is observed in the vessels-though with difficulty-so that the circulation of the blood is clearly exposed.” HeartMeanStillsDifferentScienceWonderWonderfulBloodMovementConnectionsOppositesDifficultyRegardStructureMereContraryObservationExposedWonderful ThingsVesselCirculationMicroscopes Author:Marcello Malpighi
“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.” IfsHumansHandsReligionParentBornMy OwnViewsRaceWonderGoneAtheismSourceDiseaseRegardMiseryDefeatAtheistCrueltyMysteriousHuman RaceFear Of DeathHand In Hand Author:Bertrand Russell
“Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.” HumansLittlesYoungEasyImaginationHurtEducationWonderMagicUniqueRegardOpeningCosmosEstatesSensitivityOpening UpHuman ImaginationUninspired Author:Norman Cousins