Cause And Effect Quotes

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Hardness ever of hardness is mother.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he afailure, and then fail all the more completely because hedrinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to theEnglish language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate becauseour thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our languagemakes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

If you want change, create the causes.

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

I forgot and left the lighthouse on all night. Next day the sun wouldn't rise.

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

Things don't just happen; things happen just.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

Every why hath a wherefore.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.