Immanuel Kant Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Reason Quotes

There is nothing higher than reason.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

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