Immanuel Kant Quotes

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.