Richard Powers Quotes

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

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

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

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

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

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

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

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

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

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.

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

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

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

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

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

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.