Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

I learned a long time ago that the show you're going to see isn't the one you have in your head. As soon as you understand that, you're going to enjoy it a lot more.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

You know, you can only cram your beliefs down a young kid's throat for so long before he goes, "you know, the other side seems to be having a lot more fun."

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.