wonder

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Wonder is the first of all the passions. - Rene Descartes

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Though I do not believe that plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. – Henry David Thoreau

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Think and wonder, wonder and think.  – Dr. Seuss

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Stuff your eyes with wonder. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories - Ray Bradbury
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.  – William Faulkner
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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ~ Charles Morgan

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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact ~ Carl Sagan
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Make your choice, adventurous stranger,

Strike the bell and bide the danger,

Or wonder, till it drives you mad,

What would have followed if you had. 

-          - C.S. Lewis

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller

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Always be on lookout for the presence of wonder. – E.B. White

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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. – Thomas Browne

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed – Jonathan Swift

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The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. – Charles De Lint

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. – Gerry Spence

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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. – Kalhil Gibran

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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. – Richard Bach

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Men love to wonder. And that is the seed of science. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. -  G.K. Chesterton

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God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. – William Cowper

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge. – Francis Bacon

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Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment. – Paramahamsa Yogananda

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How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts up and brings us down... the wonder of life. - Marwa Ayad

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I am waiting 

perpetually and forever

a renaissance of wonder. 

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Many times I’ve lied, many times I’ve listened, many times I’ve wondered, how much there is to know. – Led Zeppelin 

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The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive. – Carlos Castaneda 

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With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder – Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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The natural world is so adaptable, so adaptable that you wonder what’s natural. – M.T. Anderson

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true. – Michael Faraday

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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This world keeps spinnin’ round; it’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down. – Neil Young

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We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders. – G.K. Chesterton

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An act of evil is the death of wonder. – Joe Meno

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from wonder into wonder, existence opens - Lao Tsu
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom - Socrates
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. - Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Doubts, skepticism, innovation and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe and symmetry will be discovered and beyond those peaks we can see new, more wonderful things will arise ~ Christopher Hitchens