WONDER

Related Subjects: Admiration, Credulity, Miracle

1. Wonder—which is the seed of knowledge.—BACON, Advancement of Learning
   

2. Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.—Bible, Job 42:3
   

3. There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not; The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.—Bible, Proverbs 30:18, 19
   

4. Has a man done wondering at women?—there follow men, dead and alive, to wonder at. Has he done wondering at men?—there's God to wonder at.—BROWNING, Pippa Passes
   

5. Wonder is the basis of Worship.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

6. The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder . . . is but a pair of spectacles, behind which there is no Eye.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

7. The world will never starve for wonders; hut only for want of wonder.—G. K. CHESTERTON, A Century of Progress Exposition
   

8. Peace, it's wonderful!—FATHER DIVINE
   

9. Wonder is the daughter of ignorance.—JOHN FLORIO, First Fruites
   

10. Wonders will never cease.—DAVID GARRICK, Correspondence
    

11. Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?—PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
    

12. A nine days' wonder.—Proverb
    

13. Nay, I'll speak that which you will wonder at.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

14. O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

15. Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound
    To pity too.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

16. This man so complete
    Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

17. Can such things be,
    And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
    Without our special wonder?—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

18. You shall see wonders.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

19. I was struck all of a heap.—SHERIDAN, The Duenna
    

20. Wonder is involuntary praise.—EDWARD YOUNG, The Revenge
    

21. We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
    Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts