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Astonishment Quotes

Astonishment is the only realistic emotion Picture Quote #1

If at first you don’t succeed, try to hide your astonishment Picture Quote #1

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment Picture Quote #1

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment Picture Quote #1

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment Picture Quote #1

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again Picture Quote #1

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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body Picture Quote #1

Astonishment is the root of philosophy Picture Quote #1

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it Picture Quote #1

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins Picture Quote #1

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment Picture Quote #1

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible Picture Quote #1

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If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment Picture Quote #1

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said Picture Quote #1

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess Picture Quote #1

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who’s had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil Picture Quote #1

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich Picture Quote #1

It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind Picture Quote #1

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Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story Picture Quote #1

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love Picture Quote #1

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly Picture Quote #1

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement Picture Quote #1

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before Picture Quote #1

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them Picture Quote #1

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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment Picture Quote #1

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved Picture Quote #1

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm Picture Quote #1

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others Picture Quote #1

We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims Picture Quote #1

... When the test results came back, everything went silent. I don’t know if it was from pure astonishment or the overwhelming gratitude of finally having an answer, but a lifetime of words all disappeared except for one. Epilepsy Picture Quote #1

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Astonishment is the only realistic emotion (Astonishment Quotes) If at first you don’t succeed, try to hide your astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again (Astonishment Quotes) Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body (Astonishment Quotes) Astonishment is the root of philosophy (Astonishment Quotes) I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it (Astonishment Quotes) There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins (Astonishment Quotes) In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible (Astonishment Quotes) If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said (Astonishment Quotes) Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess (Astonishment Quotes) Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who’s had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil (Astonishment Quotes) The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich (Astonishment Quotes) It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind (Astonishment Quotes) Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story (Astonishment Quotes) Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love. (Astonishment Quotes) Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly (Astonishment Quotes) Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement (Astonishment Quotes) Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before (Astonishment Quotes) I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them (Astonishment Quotes) Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment (Astonishment Quotes) Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved (Astonishment Quotes) Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm (Astonishment Quotes) She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others (Astonishment Quotes) We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims (Astonishment Quotes) ... When the test results came back, everything went silent. I don’t know if it was from pure astonishment or the overwhelming gratitude of finally having an answer, but a lifetime of words all disappeared except for one. Epilepsy (Astonishment Quotes)

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