Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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• The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Different
  • Dinner
  • Debate

• When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Star
  • Parent
  • Stars

• To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • People
  • Free
  • Picture

• My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • President
  • Hands-On

• I know that I have a special stomach.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Know
  • Special
  • Stomach

• No one likes change but babies in diapers.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • Change
  • Likes
  • Diapers

• I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Age
  • Story
  • Homework

• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Television
  • Radio

• I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eye
  • Ever
  • Public Eye

• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Platform

• Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Together
  • Education

• There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Time
  • Job
  • Working

• It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.

  

  Carl Andre

• One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Discovery

• Hopefully, by the experience from playing the Speidel Course, they will have a better time and play better than they have before.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Speidel Course

• My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Player

• There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • God
  • Love
  • Truth

• The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce