Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Faith is Doubt.

Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

I'm pretty confident, I guess I would say.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.