Today we have picked up some of the best quotes from the book ‘wonder’. The wonder is a kind of book that changes the way you think about life. And even if you haven’t read the book you can enjoy the quotes and get the idea of how that book is and why you should read it.
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Wonder Quotes
1.”It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”Lionsgate
2.”When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.”
3.”Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”Lionsgate
4.”The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.”
5.”I didn’t destroy a Death Star or anything like that, but I did just get through the fifth grade. And that’s not easy, even if you’re not me.”Lionsgate
6.”I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.”
7.”A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we’ve done, and apply what we’ve learned from those things to the future. If we don’t examine the past, we don’t learn from it.”Lionsgate
8.“You don’t need your eyes to love, right? You just feel it inside you. That’s how it is in heaven. It’s just love, and no one forgets who they love.”
9.“But I really believe, and Daddy really believes, that there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.”Lionsgate
10.“We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
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11.”Learning who you are is what you are here to do.”Lionsgate
12.“The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average — though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”
13.“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.
14.”Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Neil Armstrong
15.“Think and wonder, wonder and think.” Dr. Seuss
16.“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” Gerry Spence
17.“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” E.B. White
18.“Philosophy begins in wonder.” Plato
19.“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
20.“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.” M. C. Escher
21.“When given the choice between being right or being kind choose kind.”
22.“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
23.“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ― Franz Kafka
24.“I would rather have 30 minutes of “wonderful” than a lifetime of nothing special.” ― Julia Roberts
25.“You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.” – Nate Berkus
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26.“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E .E. Cummings
27.“I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.” – Willem Dafoe
28.“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” ― Gerry Spence
29.“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” – Ralph W. Sockman
30.“We carry within us, the wonders we seek around us.” – Sir Thomas Browne
31.“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ― Socrat.
32.“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.” – Steven Wright
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34.“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” ― Neil Armstrong
35.“The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can’t help but feel a certain sense of wonder – I become almost filled with it.” – Kathi Appelt
36.“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
37.“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.” ― Edmund Burke
38.“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” ― Charlie Chaplin
39.“Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
40.Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
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41.“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”
42.“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”
43.“The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average– though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”
44.“We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
45.“It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”
46.“Man has to awaken to wonder.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
47.“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
48.“I believe that curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.” Kay Redfield Jamison
49.“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates
50.“Live a life of wonder.” ATGW
51.“All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.” Charles Dickens
52.“What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.” G.K. Chesterton”
53.“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” Richard Dawkins
54.“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.” G. K. Chesterton
55.“Look at everything in the world as if you are seeing it for the first time, and paint everything as if you were seeing it for the last time.” Andrew Hamilton
56.“A state of wonder is a state of mind.” Margaret Stone
57.“We carry within us, the wonders we seek around us.” Sir Thomas Browne
58.“Never lose your sense of wonder.” Anonymous
59.“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
60.“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” Ronald Reagan
61.“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” E .E. Cummings
62.“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” Ralph Sockman
63.“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” Abraham Joshua Heschel
64.“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” ― Walt Whitman
65.“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.” – Richard Dawkins
66.“Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.” – Stewart Udall
67.“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” – Plato
68.“It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
69.“Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.” ― Hayao Miyazaki
70.“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats
71.“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ― Albert Einstein
72.“The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.” ― Suzy Kassem
73.“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein
74.“Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.” ― Welwyn Wilton Katz
75.“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” ― Betty Smith
76.“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking
77.“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ― R J Palacio
78.“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ― Emerson
79.“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan
80.“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.” – Jim Lovell
81.“Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.” ― Andy Mulcahy
82.“How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.” – Keanu Reeves
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