“If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.” IfsKnowsI CanPlayWholeFilmInterestWonderWatchesKnow HowSunMagicCreationPicksLibraryMagazinesMuseumsSun Set Author:Phylicia Rashad
“Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.” WorldInterestNaturalPowerfulWonderMost PowerfulCompoundsWonder Of The WorldCompound InterestNatural Wonders Author:Albert Einstein
“I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"” ThinkingWorldFirstsInterestWonderThis WorldCreatorBoundaries Author:Hidetaka Suehiro
“I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that "other eye," which we can use to judge ourselves.” PeopleUseSeemsEyeInterestDealsWonderJudgingIdleDeliberate Book:Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Source: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.” IfsThinkingWantInterestWonderFilledWideBurningFlamesConcreteNewness Author:Tanith Lee
“Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.” AgeGrowsInterestLosesWonderMankindAccustomed Author:Jose Saramago
“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.” PeopleShouldCareUsedHeavenGrowsInterestWonderDoubtAtheismEffectsDoctorsMarkPositive AtheismLawyerSicknessPriestsWrathLawsuit Author:Pierre Bayle
“There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.” FeelsTwoCountryInterestWonderDetailsRhythmEnjoymentDaily LifePhasesRelaxedObserversExotic Author:Dervla Murphy
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.” IfsWorldPhilosophyShowsLyingWishInterestAnswersWonderIncreaseAskingSurfaceDaily LifeAsking QuestionsStrangenessBelow The Surface Book:The Problems of Philosophy Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.” IfsMenMadeImportantFormUsedInterestWonderSawsDepartmentShoppingWorthwhile Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.” IfsWorldShouldBelieveStatesFactsI BelieveInterestExistenceConsciousnessWonderSeriousLaughterIdealsEmptyUniversalMiracleMereKillingObviousMissionsAbstractNonsenseSurroundOverwhelmingPretentiousStates Of ConsciousnessUncannySerious BusinessWonder Of Nature Author:Alan Watts
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” WorldHumansInterestPowerfulWonderSpecialCenturyDangerousPlanetsIndustryMassLogicPlantRememberedPropagandaPoisonConvinceDelusionHistorianDestroyingWorld HistoryFlawedCoalitionsSpecial InterestsCo2ToxinsUnrelenting Author:Richard Lindzen
“Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.” IfsWorldHumansSelfSometimesInterestHuman BeingsWonderWorryProfitSavingSelf CenteredGoodwillCamouflageSometimes I Wonder Author:Enele Sopoaga
“Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.” KnowsPastInterestWonderWorryWiseStyleCreaturesSpeciesAbidingHomo Sapiens Author:John Noble Wilford
“Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.” PeopleIfsPersonsSelfInterestWonderCuriosityInvestigationSelf Knowledge Author:Alan Watts
“Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.” PeopleMadeHelpingInterestRoomsPayWonderPolicyMusicianPaidIndependentEntityRepresentingLobbyists Author:Erin McKeown
“Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú the details, just the ones that immediately interest us.” WorldInterestNaturalWonderDetailsOur WorldSensoryBurstingOverloadNatural Wonders Author:Vera Nazarian