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Your Quotes for 4 May 2006 - Wonder

Alice Pleasance Liddell was born at Westminster on this day in 1852, daughter of the dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. She and her sisters had aroused the admiration of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford who met the girls while photographing the cathedral. When Dodgson took the girls boating one afternoon in 1862 he sketched a story of Alice and a White Rabbit, which he later wrote out and illustrated as a Christmas present. He published the story, but couldn't risk his reputation by using his own name and attributed it to Lewis Carroll. Shortly before her death Alice told her son she was "tired of being Alice in Wonderland." I can't blame her for that, but it is noteworthy to have inspired such a work. Here's to Wonder.

The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all art and science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
     - Bette Davis, 1908 - 1989

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
     - Greek proverb

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
     - Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
     - Lord Dunsany, The Laughter of the Gods

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
     - Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 - 1941

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