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Matter Quotes - Page 163

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1841). “The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.3

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the D'urbervilles”, p.18, Reprint Services Corporation

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

Tama J. Kieves (2018). “Thriving Through Uncertainty: Moving Beyond Fear of the Unknown and Making Change Work for You”, p.169, Penguin

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

"Problems We Face Together". Representative Steve Kagen, United States House of Representatives, July 21, 2007.

Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

"Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 274, 1991.

When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.79, Penguin

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.8, Simon and Schuster