Quotes about Wonder
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
— Walt Disney
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
— Tony Robbins
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
— Florence Nightingale
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
— William Wordsworth
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.
— Arianna Huffington
the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
— Frederick Buechner
Sitting there in the Alabama winter with my mouth full of cold turnip and mud, I could see at least for a moment how if you ever took truly to heart the ultimate goodness and joy of things, even at their bleakest, the need to praise someone or something for it would be so great that you might even have to go out and speak of it to the birds of the air.
— Frederick Buechner
Man is incurably curious.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
— Eleanor Roosevelt