"Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world."
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"One always wonders about roads not taken."
"Wonder is the desire of knowledge."
"Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path."
"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
"I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder."
"I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?"
"This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin."
"Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?"
"Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North"
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."
"My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house."
"How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror."
"You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?"
"I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate."
"Nothing is yet in its true form."
"Philosophy is the product of wonder."
"The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel."
"As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder."