James Broughton Quotes

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

People never cease to amaze me.

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.

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

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

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

Wonders will never cease.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.