Astonishment Quotes
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If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.
William Macneile Dixon
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
Mike Nichols
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
Terence McKenna
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Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”
Bel Kaufman
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
William Sansom
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A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
Terry Eagleton