Astonish quotes and words of wisdom

"Always do right ? it will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."
Harry S. Truman


"Always do right ? this will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain


"Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer."
Unknown


"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
Spinoza


"Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible."
Eugene Ionesco


"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


"If at first you do succeed ? try to hide your astonishment."
Proverb


"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
André Maurois


"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
Dr. William Ralph Inge


"Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Henry Brooks Adams


"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."
Celia Green


"The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion."
John Stuart Mill


Interesting Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Muhammad Ali - US boxer (1942 - )

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Heller - US novelist (1923 - )