Clarity Quote by Albert Einstein

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

— Marquis de Sade

“Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to…

— Haruki Murakami

Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance;…

— Chauncey Wright

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried…

— Aristotle

“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.”

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

“Hume saw clearly that certain concepts, for example that of causality, cannot be deduced from our perceptions of experience by logical methods,” Einstein noted.…

— Walter Isaacson

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed…

— John Dewey

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of…

— Maria Montessori

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

— Immanuel Kant

The knowledge of all things is possible

— Leonardo da Vinci