Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

To my mind, most people go through life recoiling from its best parts. They miss the enrichment that just a basic knowledge of the physical world can bring to the most ordinary experiences.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.