Wonder is the basis of worship

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Wonder Quotes

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to...

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to...

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight...

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight...

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working...

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature...

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Language is memory and metaphor

Language is memory and metaphor

Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of...

Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of...