Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

—Immanuel Kant

About Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and philosophy...

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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

—Immanuel Kant

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

—Immanuel Kant

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More quotations tagged with “wisdom”

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything—and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

—George Santayana

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

—Edmund Burke

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

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