Awe Quote by Thomas Aquinas

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

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

— Jostein Gaarder

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

— Plato

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight…

— Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy begins with wonder.

— Aristotle

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

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

— Plato

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the…

— Anonymous