Self-imposed immaturity - Immanuel Kant
"Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding!"
- Immanuel Kant in a 1784 essay entitled, What Is Enlightenment