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


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Philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO
Philosophy begins with wonder
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Philosophy begins in wonder. It never ends.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning...
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATES
The wonder of life begins in the womb of a woman.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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KELLY JONES
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS
I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ...
THE WONDER YEARS
I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
THE WONDER YEARS
Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ...
THE WONDER YEARS
Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS
I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
THE WONDER YEARS
All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners...
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Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo...
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It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher.
Space travel has again made children of u...
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and ...
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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
ARISTOTLE
To know is a burden. To not wondering is a gift. Not knowing is a curse.
JODEL AREVALO
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY
Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.
JEF I. RICHARDS
One begins to wonder about the lost face, that forms of ones circumstance held in place, by the art ...
SEDAT SEALS
Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.
RAHEEL FAROOQ
British philosopher Alan Watts observed, a sense of wonder “distinguishes men from other animals, ...
ERIC WEINER
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of...
HENRY MILLER
Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.
MORTIMER ADLER
The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
MARTY RUBIN
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
JHUMPA LAHIRI
Questions are the food of a philosopher.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The philosopher is greater than the Pastor or the Imam,because the philosopher is the only person th...
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Long after an event has occurred & even forgotten,the Philosopher will continue in meditation upon t...
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
ARISTOTLE
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
ARISTOTLE
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
RAY BRADBURY
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mys...
HENRY MILLER
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much...
TABITHA SUZUMA
The stars are out tonight. All of them.
JAMES HALAT
But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything?
MARGARET ATWOOD
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even...
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGAN
Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
HAROLD BLOOM
Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Wonder implies the desire to learn
ARISTOTLE
It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonde...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone...
TRAVIS THRASHER
I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, and I wanted to tell that story. I di...
PATTY JENKINS
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
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At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She...
GAL GADOT
Whether you're a wonder Kid or a wonder man is inconsequential,but the most important thing is that ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
BLAISE PASCAL
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.
ELIZABETH MOON
Wonder is the basis of worship.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Wonder is the basis of worship
THOMAS CARLYLE
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATES
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
FRANCIS BACON
Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power ...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free
JOHN BARRYMORE
I wonder if a typical African man can wash her woman's feet without feeling the strain of a burgeoni...
IFEOLUWA EGBETADE
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...
ECKHART TOLLE
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. Wh...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the ve...
EUGENE H. PETERSON
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing wit...
DAVID BOHM
Falling in love is the most beautiful wonder.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Is protecting the City of London from EU financial services regulations the same as protecting the i...
MUHAMMED HAIDER
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
VACLAV HAVEL
Great Art is the wonder of the mind
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK
This is the ninth wonder of the world.
JACK SYPTAK
It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...
ANNIE DILLARD
A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the tru...
JOSEF PIEPER
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
A. P. MARTINICH
... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...
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I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of huma...
DAVID MITCHELL
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
LAO TZU
The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
The wonders of the holy wonder is timeless mystery.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I have waited fifty years to see the Boneless Wonder [Ramsay MacDonald] sitting on the Treasury Benc...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
JACK D. ZIPES
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doi...
MEG ROSOFF
Don't wake up in the morning and wonder why you are here. Wake up and wonder why you are not making ...
RANJIT GEORGE
Wonder acts upon a man like a shock, he is "moved" and "shaken", and in the dislocation that succeed...
JOSEF PIEPER
What a wonderful world in the land of wonder?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
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