Wonder is the beginning of wisdom! - Socrates - Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, as well as the theologian Abraham Heschel, St. Gregory of Nyssa & Irish poet-theologian John O'Donohue & preface with Kant's "beauty" as the genesis of morals + Filipino "be

Socrates observed that "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom!" - "Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. When the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than facts. We should not frown on facts, but our world is congested with them." John O'Donohue Two thousand years ago, Aristotle remarked on the drive for understanding and knowledge when he stated, "All men desire knowledge!" - the desire for meaning being driven by a deep sense of awe and wonder for the "All", the world and the universe. Socrates' unspoken argument is that wonder, curiosity, and imagination are intimately connected with wisdom. Einstein observed that imagination was absolutely critical to all of his discoveries.