Wisdom begins in wonder.Socrates
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My wonder button is being pushed all the time.Carl Sagan
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.Charles de Lint
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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.Ray Bradbury
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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?Jeanette Winterson, from The Passion
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Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill. Because it turns out that the most important things in this life — why the universe is here instead of not, what happens to us when we die, how the people we love really feel about us — are things we’re never going to know.Tim Kreider, “In Praise of Not Knowing” for the NYT
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