Affection Quote by Plato

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

— Plato

“Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato”

— Plato

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

— Plato

“In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to…

— Michael Munro

Philosophy begins with wonder.

— Aristotle

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Socrates

“...Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be a lover…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Wisdom may begin in wonder, however, it inevitability ends in righteousness (Socrates)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

— Jostein Gaarder