Affirming Quote by Richard M. Weaver

Philosophy begins with wonder.

— Aristotle

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

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

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

— Plato

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

— Epictetus

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

“Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato”

— Plato