Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I find this life so interesting.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

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

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

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.

Just being out in the world gives me ideas.

The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.

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

The more I wonder, the more I love.

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.