Great Throughts Treasury

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Hitopadesa or The Hitopadesa or Hitopadesha NULL

We teach children how to measure, how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. The sense of the sublime, the sign of the inward greatness of the human soul and something which is potentially given to all men, is now a rare gift.

Awe | Children | Greatness | Men | Sense | Soul | Teach | Wisdom | Wonder |

James Henry Leigh Hunt

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Wisdom | Wonder |

Metastasio, aka Pietro Petastasio, pseudonymn for Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi NULL

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons.

Error | Judgment | Mankind | Wisdom | Wonder |

Metastasio, aka Pietro Petastasio, pseudonymn for Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi NULL

O, how full of error is the judgment of mankind. They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. They call it fortune when they know not the cause, and thus worship their own ignorance changed into a deity.

Cause | Error | Fortune | Ignorance | Judgment | Mankind | Wisdom | Wonder | Worship |

Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in the darkest hiding-place, your own heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

God | Heart | Men | Wisdom | Wonder |

Samuel Rutherford

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.

God | Heart | Lord | Wisdom | Wonder | God | Child |

William Sansom

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

Evil | Good | Wisdom | Wonder | World |

Richard Clarke Cabot

Whenever beauty overwhelms us, whenever wonder silences our chattering hopes and worries, we are close to worship.

Beauty | Wonder | Worship | Beauty |

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it ends; and admiration fills up the interspace. But the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance: the last is the parent of adoration.

Admiration | Ends | Ignorance | Philosophy | Wonder | Parent |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Faith is sensitiveness to what transcends nature, knowledge and will, awareness of the ultimate, alertness to the holy dimension of all reality. Faith is a force in man, lying deeper than the stratum of reason and its nature cannot be defined in abstract, static terms. To have faith is not to infer the beyond from the wretched here, but to perceive the wonder that is here and to be stirred by the desire to integrate the self into the holy order of living. It is not a deduction but an intuition, not a form of knowledge, of being convinced without proof, but the attitude of mind toward ideas whose scope is wider than its own capacity to grasp.

Abstract | Awareness | Capacity | Desire | Faith | Force | Ideas | Intuition | Knowledge | Lying | Man | Mind | Nature | Order | Reality | Reason | Self | Will | Wonder | Awareness |

Os Guiness

Do you have the courage of your desires, or have you always considered your yearnings as idle and unproductive? Do you feel the wonder of existence, your own and that of everything? Does it truly do justice to that wonder to see it as an illusion or as a product of chance?

Chance | Courage | Existence | Illusion | Justice | Wonder | Yearnings |

Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley

If the self-conception of novelty is the basic wonder of the universe, this eliciting of mind from the potentialities of world-stuff, and its intensification and increasing importance during evolution is the basic wonder of life.

Evolution | Life | Life | Mind | Novelty | Self | Universe | Wonder | World | Novelty |

Stephen Larsen, fully H. Stephen Larsen

Inevitably we learn through changing our perspectives. Consideration of life against the background of death brings its wonder and mystery to the surface.

Consideration | Death | Life | Life | Mystery | Wonder | Learn |

Charles Langbridge Morgan

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Knowledge | Wonder |

Fritz A. Rothschild

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Appreciation | Beginning | Life | Life | Mankind | Understanding | Will | Wonder | Worth | Happiness |