Category: Intellect, Judgement

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1. "Prejudice is an opinion without judgement."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


2. "Childhood is the sleep of reason."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Youth and Age


3. "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer


4. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity


5. "Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all."

Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"

Quotations about: Art and Culture


6. "Reason can never prove the existence of God."

Immanuel Kant

Quotations about: God and Religion


7. "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

Barry LePatner


8. "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the Universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. "

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Human


9. "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

Simone Weil

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