Sense Of Wonder Quotes

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”
― China Miéville

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
― Carl Sagan

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead

“Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
― Walt Streightiff

“But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything?”
― Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

“Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed.”
― John Mark Green

“A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.”
― Oliver Markus, Oliver's Strange Journey: Collector's Edition

“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth.
Art lives on but wealth diminishes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“The stars are out tonight. All of them.”
― James Halat, The Story of Teddy and Eddie

“People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.”
― Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality

“As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed, or my perception of it. It ripped apart like a dry skin under pressure, giving way to something I can only describe as ineffable dimensions, depths upon depths.”
― Stefan Emunds, The Priest Whisperer

“In nature, every distraction is an inspiration.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.”
― Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality

“Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.”
― Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality

“The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.”
― Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality

“Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.”
― Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality

“Dragonflies say "mystery" to me.”
― Cindy Crosby, Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History