Begins Quote by Plato

Philosophy begins with wonder.

— Aristotle

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Plato

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato”

— Plato

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

— Michel de Montaigne

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

— Plato

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

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

— Socrates

There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in worry. I…

— Simon Critchley

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