Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Science is nothing but perception.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The truth is more important than the facts

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.