
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
The quote "Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder." is famous quote by Plato (-427–-347 BC), Classical Greek philosopher.
155, The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3, 1871, p. 377 http://books.google.com/books?id=4kQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA377
Theaetetus
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
if he does depart from his state of wonder, he has ceased to philosophize.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 105–106
Journals and Papers III 3284 (1841)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 107
Metaphysics by Aristotle – Book 1, ClassicalWisdom.com
The second sentence is in Metaphysics A 2, 928<sup>b</sup> 17–20, Aristotle: Metaphysics Beta: Symposium Aristotelicum, Michel Crubellier & Andre´ Laks, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 4.
Metaphysics
Variant: [And] one who experiences a difficulty and who feels wonder thinks that he does not understand..., so that, if it is to escape ignorance that they have practised philosophy, then it is clearly for the sake of knowing, and not for any practical purpose, that they have pursued understanding.