Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

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. That is the way I would explain reality.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

No authority is higher than reality.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

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.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

Science is but an image of the truth.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.