Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. -
Eugene Ionesco
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [La., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit] -
Cicero [Marcus Tullius Cicero]
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. -
Nadia Boulanger
Astonishment is the root of philosophy. -
Paul Johannes Tillich
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. -
Margaret Mead
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. -
Max Lerner
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. -
Marcus Aurelius
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. -
Charles Caleb Colton
