To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe. Read Summary
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Read Summary
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Read Summary
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. Read Summary
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. Read Summary
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Read Summary
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Read Summary
Wisdom begins in wonder. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Read Summary
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Read Summary
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. Read Summary
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children. Read Summary
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. Read Summary
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Read Summary
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. Read Summary
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Read Summary
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Read Summary