Curiosity Quote by Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

Philosophy begins with wonder.

— Aristotle

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

— Alfred North Whitehead

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

— Socrates

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

— Plato

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

— Michel de Montaigne

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are…

— Simon Critchley

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge