Bliss Carman Quotes

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

Science is the search for truth.

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Guessing isn't knowing.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Investigation is never complete.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.