“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator
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Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
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“Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.”
A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 60, “Values and Knowledge” (p. 236)
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”
Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Plato book Theaetetus
155, The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3, 1871, p. 377 http://books.google.com/books?id=4kQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA377 <br class="br">Theaetetus