“Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.” ThinkingHandsOpportunityKnownWonderBusyNative AmericanBusy Life Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.” Has BeensMovingSpeakKnownWonderTreeStones Author:William Shakespeare
“I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.” MenWorldHas BeensLightEvilKnownWonderSkyBlessingSpringPassingInnocentPassingsTime PassingTime PassesInnocent Love Author:R. S. Thomas
“Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.” HumansKindWould BeRememberScienceDifficultAnimalKnownWonderStudyFourDangerousFieldsTasksScientistStrongerIronyAnxiousInitiateHabitatWild AnimalChimpanzeesGuidelinesRugged Author:Jane Goodall
“Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.” PeopleLongSeemsTogetherKnownWonderMarriedLong TimeOpposites Author:Paul Mazursky
“The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.” WellsLooksTwoFacesUsedReligionKnownWonderLaughingWell KnownRemarksCato Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.” WellsMeanPhilosophyWishKnownWonderSeeingPerspectiveLiberationRoutineWell KnownSoarPhylosophyNew Perspective Author:Walter Kaufmann
“One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.” MightHappensEyeUniverseKnownWonderPracticeDarknessStandingLibraryShouldersBordersGiantsPeers Book:Wonders of the Universe Source: Wonders of the Universe
“We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.” TryingWellsHas BeensDoneFeltKnownWonderAudienceEventsBattleSpeechFemaleLaysPreparedVersionsAweShockTroopsWell KnownMonarchsFrontline Author:Cate Blanchett
“To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.” PeopleWorldFeelingsRealityYoungLevelsKnownWonderPoetry IsAnother Life Author:Ai Weiwei
“As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” KnownWonderIslandsShoreline Author:Huston Smith
“I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.” WorldFeelingsKidsWantedRomanceKnownWonderMessSense Of Wonder Book:Glory Road Source: Glory Road
“I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times - walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they devoured me.” DifferentDreamRunningMovingFeltKnownWonderImpossibleParticularPlanetsWalkingSkinsClaimsMiseryAliensMoving InDevouring Author:Gordon Parks
“Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.” KnownWonderRichMadnessCuresLegacyRelative Author:Sam Smith
“In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known.” PeopleCountryAmericaKnownWonderEconomicConcerned Author:John Kasich