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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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-Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus
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Wonder, connected with a principle of
rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it
is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is
satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
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-Samuel Horsley
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If the spirit of religion join itself to
the love of wonder, there is an end of common sense, and human testimony
in these circumstances loses all pretensions to authority.
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-David Hume
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to
understand.
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-Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The larger the island of knowledge, the
longer the shoreline of wonder.
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-Ralph W. Sockman
(cf. ISLANDS : Islands of Knowledge)
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
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-Edward Young
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