Erik Larson Quotes

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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

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.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

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

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

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

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

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

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

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

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

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

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

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.