Top 100 Facts Matter Quotes
#1. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.
Stephen Colbert
#2. Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.
Eliot Spitzer
#3. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert
#4. And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you ... none of the rest of this will matter.
Ruth Clampett
#5. It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
#6. Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
Saul Bellow
#7. A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
Imre Kertesz
#8. The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second only to American political campaigns - the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.
Larry Laudan
#9. When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts.
Bertrand Russell
#10. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#11. If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.
Billy Bob Thornton
#12. It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).
Marjorie Hillis
#13. I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.
Jerry Lewis
#14. Useless Facts About Vodka (How dare you, there's nothing useless about vodka) Vodka does have an expiration date and will most likely go bad after 12 months. Sad but true. No matter, the stuff is usually gone in 12 hours anyways. Until
Daniel Ganninger
#15. Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
John Galsworthy
#16. Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.
David Hume
#17. In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
#18. But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding
Tammara Webber
#19. Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me !
Man Ray
#20. No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
Aldo Leopold
#21. Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of time I don't care about it. As of now.. live your life, cut those negative thoughts and actions, reach your dreams and goals.
Jayson Engay
#22. Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.
Lee Friedlander
#23. The senses collect the surface facts of matter ... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the matter have been unilaterally interpreted, and sometimes distorted, giving rise to unjustified criticism of the conduct of the Icelandic authorities.
Johanna Siguroardottir
#25. If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
David Douglass
#26. No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
Elie Abel
#27. There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.
Robert Jastrow
#28. It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.
Elsa Morante
#29. Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.
Condoleezza Rice
#30. Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
Ken Starr
#31. I'm never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?
Lynn Barber
#32. Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter.
Octavia E. Butler
#33. But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
Nassau William Senior
#34. Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.
Tom Coburn
#35. It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.
Jimmy Carter
#36. though he's wrong about how these methods work. It's religion - facts don't matter, especially when the facts involve women's liberty.
Katha Pollitt
#37. To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#38. Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Mason Cooley
#39. We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we're faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart's a stubborn organ.
Kim Harrington
#40. The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
Maya Angelou
#41. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
#42. Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
Sarah Brady
#43. I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.
Jack Benny
#44. In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.
Sarah Polley
#45. The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.
H.L. Mencken
#46. It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
Richard P. Feynman
#47. I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.
Paul Auster
#48. Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness.
Asma Naqi
#49. As long as the Good News remains a matter of abstract facts, it will have little more effect on your life than your insurance policy has on the way you drive.
Matthew Jacoby
#50. It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#51. Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.
Jim Croce
#52. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote ... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
Paul Weyrich
#53. 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.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#54. discussing facts or culpability in the matter because the convictions are still on appeal. But I have been repeatedly asked why Sylvia did not just simply run away. I would suggest that by the time Sylvia told her sister she knew she was dying, she had reached profound apathy
John Dean
#55. A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#56. There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts are facts. Sugar is sweet - it's not a matter of opinion. It just is.
Paul Rand
#57. I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
Henry Ward Beecher
#58. In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy
#59. It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are ...
Edith Hamilton
#60. Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.
Nikita Khrushchev
#61. As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.
Steve Reich
#63. I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Jeff Bridges
#64. Simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we can
never understand true reality, if two models both explain the
same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is a
matter of convenience.
Scott Adams
#65. When a market makes a historic high, it is telling you something. No matter how many people tell you why the market shouldn't be that high, or why nothing has changed, the mere fact that the price is at a new high tells you something has changed.
Larry Hite
#66. Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
John Green
#67. A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
Romain Gary
#68. Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
Maya Deren
#69. The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales
#70. We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.
Tony Robbins
#71. Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind, rules never matter at all.
Seanan McGuire
#72. Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.
Joseph Campbell
#73. Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.
Matthew Tindal
#74. The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
Pete Townshend
#75. Immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the facts of the matter.
J.P. Moreland
#76. As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
Woodrow Wilson
#77. The only factor that affects your chance of getting a raise is whether or not you've earned it. It doesn't matter if your car broke down or that your landlord's raising your rent. Those facts are not your boss's problem. All she needs to know is that you're kicking ass, like a #GIRLBOSS should.
Sophia Amoruso
#78. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.
Ricky Gervais
#79. Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.
T.K. Coleman
#80. I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
Albert Einstein
#81. As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.
Stevie Wonder
#82. I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved
unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.
Edward Bernds
#83. It is the facts that some people will never fit in our life, no matter how much you want them.
Glenda Radores
#84. Facts are what matter, but how do you know which are the true ones?
Marty Rubin
#85. And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.
Herman Melville
#86. If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.
Frank Wildhorn
#87. I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.
Stephen Colbert
#88. The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
William Schreyer
#89. The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
Elizabeth Strout
#90. No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
Tea Obreht
#91. Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.
Hilda Van Stockum
#92. The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.
David Rosenhan
#93. Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.
John Dewey
#94. It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.
Michael Specter
#95. To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell
#96. I shook Alan's hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you're looking for what to say and it's on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you.
Pamela Alvarado
#97. It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.
Roger Joseph Boscovich
#98. Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however, and brought into mutual harmony, and it is another matter.
Oliver Heaviside
#99. The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#100. History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.
Peter Kuznick
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