WONDER QUOTES

Welcome to the Wonder Quote Page. If you come across any quotes about Wonder that you would

like to share with the group, send them out to the Vista Zen Center Google group and they will end up here. If you have any comments on any of the quotes, please leave them in the Reply Box below.

who wonders,

discovers that this in itself is wonder.

~ M.C. Escher

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Greek proverb said: “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”

Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.Lao Tzu

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life–learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~Robert Fulghum

…and meditate some!

Alessandra

The artist appeals…to that in us which is a gift and not an acquistion–and, therefore, more permanently enduring.  He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives……
Joseph Conrad