Certainty Quote by Stephen Colbert Download Open image “Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.” — Stephen Colbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Facts Matter Perception Philosophy of Mind
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Everything we see is based on perception not truth. Everything we hear is based on opinion not fact. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact). — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told. — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Believe in me, cause I don't believe in anything, and I wanna be someone to believe. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.” — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image