17 Quotes on Wonder

1. “I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.”

Anne Lamott, author of Crooked Little Heart, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, and Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

2. “Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates, classical Greek philosopher

3. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

e e cummings, 20th Century American poet

4. “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

Saint Augustine, early christian theologian

5. “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”

Mark Twain, 19th Century American writer and humorist

6. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first man to walk on the moon

7. “The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”

Richard Bach, author of  Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah 

8. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Graham Greene, English writer, playwright, and literary critic. Wrote The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana

9. “It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”

Joseph Wood Krutch, American writer, critic, naturalist, and professor

10. “Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”

Albert Schweitzer, German theologian, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary

11. “Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”

Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest, philosopher, and theologian

12. “That’s the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”

Bill Watterson, American artist and author of comic strip Calvin and Hobbes

13. “He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.”

M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist

14. “A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods, Coraline, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane

15. “Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.”

Randy Pausch, computer science professor, author of The Last Lecture

16. “I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.”

Anne Tyler, author of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons


17. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science."

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist


All quotes from BrainyQuote (http://www.brainyquote.com) using the topic wonder.