#astonishment

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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Astonishment is the root of philosophy. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#philosophy #root

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. ↗

— Harry Banks

#first #hide #if at first #succeed #try

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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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

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