Matt Haig Quotes

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

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