"I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it."
Read quote
8 likes
Matter quotes
Matter
6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Matter
Browse quotes that often appear alongside matter — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Matter quotes (page 32 of 301)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters."
Read quote
8 likes
"A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous"."
Read quote
8 likes
"Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself."
Read quote
8 likes
"Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter."
Read quote
8 likes
"Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration."
Read quote
8 likes
"We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none."
Read quote
8 likes
"I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics."
Read quote
8 likes
"Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity."
Read quote
8 likes
"No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize."
Read quote
8 likes
"No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly."
Read quote
8 likes
"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
Read quote
8 likes
"It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time"
Read quote
8 likes
"Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy"
Read quote
8 likes
"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."
Read quote
8 likes
"Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what."
Read quote
8 likes
"No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances."
Read quote
8 likes
"The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter"
Read quote
8 likes
"The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims."
Read quote
7 likes
"... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too."
Read quote
7 likes