Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

—St Augustine

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

—Albert Einstein

The more I wonder, the more I love.

—Alice Walker

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

—George Bernard Shaw

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

—Sir Thomas Browne

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

—Eugene Ionesco

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

—Beverly Nichols

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

—Rachel Carson

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

—John Burroughs

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

—Helen Keller

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

–John Muir

You know you’re old when you’ve lost all your marvels.

—Merry Browne