The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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Albert Einstein
[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
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Richard Dawkins
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
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Edmund Burke
I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!
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P.L. Travers
Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
More Quotes By Lord Byron
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
I am not now That which I have been.
A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
