Sapere aude
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Sapere aude is a Latin phrase meaning "Dare to know." or "Dare to be wise". 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 [1] (http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/horace/epist1.shtml), 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. Users of the motto include:
- University of Otago (and formerly the University of New Zealand)
- University of New Brunswick
- Manchester Grammar School
- Bishop Hugh Oldham, founder of Manchester Grammar School
- Town of Oldham, England
- Crompton House Curch of England School, which is situated in Oldham, England
- Woodside School in Tamil Nadu
- Abingdon High School in Virginia
- Federal Way Public Academy in Washington
- Continuum of Humanist Education
- Society of the Friends of Truth