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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

— Socrates, as portrayed in Theaetetus by Plato

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

helen keller

— The Story of My Life (1902)

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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

charles morgan

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

Plato

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

— American poet

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

Leo Buscaglia

— In interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)

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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

— In Nature and Life (1934) Ch. 1

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead

— Alfred North Whitehead, in Modes of Thought (1938) Ch. 3, Lecture 7, p. 232

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When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason.

richard weaver

— Richard Weaver, in Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 19

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

— As quoted in E. J. Bowen's obituary of Hinshelwood, Chemistry in Britain (1967), Vol. 3, 536

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