Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

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

People never cease to amaze me.

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

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

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.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

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

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

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.

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

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

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

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

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

Wonders will never cease.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

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.