Sapere aude is a Latin phrase meaning "Dare to know" or "Dare to be wise", or sometimes translated as "Have courage to use your own reason". Most famously, it is found in Immanuel Kant's essay "What Is Enlightenment?". The original use seems to be in Epistle II of Horace's Epistularum liber primus ^*, line 40: Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").

It is a frequently used motto. Some users of the motto are listed below.

Globally

• Continuum of Humanist Education
• Society of the Friends of Truth

Australia

• Wesley College, Melbourne

Belgium

• UGent University

Canada

• Alexander von Humboldt, Deutsche Schule Montreal
• Richmond Hill High School, Richmond Hill, Ontario
• University of New Brunswick

Finland

• Classical Upper Level Comprehensive School of Tampere
• Finnish sceptic association

India

• Government Arts College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
• Woodside School in Tamil Nadu

Netherlands

• Naastenliefde, Vrijheid & Diversiteit

New Zealand

• University of Otago (and formerly the University of New Zealand)

Russia

• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (aka Phystech) in Moscow, Russia

Sweden

• Karlstad University

United Kingdom

• Bishop Hugh Oldham, founder of Manchester Grammar School
• Crompton House Church of England School, which is situated in Shaw and Crompton
• Manchester Grammar School
• Torquay Boys' Grammar School (as Aude Sapere)
• Town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England

United States of America

• Abingdon High School in Virginia
• Federal Way Public Academy in Washington
• County College of Morris
• Renaissance Arts Academy, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
• Loyola Marymount University Class 2009 Los Angeles, California

See also

• Weimar Classicism

Latin mottos

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