Thomas Traherne Quotes

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Good God what a fine sight. I had no conception that there was such a scene in the world, and to find it in my own dominions.

What an extraordinary world it is.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

I've always liked discovering things.

I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.