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Cause & Effect |
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Quotations
 | Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 15 likes |
 | Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 11 likes |
 | The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
 | Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 9 likes |
 | Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 6 likes |
 | Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 5 likes |
 | Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 5 likes |
 | Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 5 likes |
 | He teaches me to be good that does me good. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Coincidence is the known result of unknown causes. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 4 likes |
 | So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes - with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes |
 | Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | We are what we are because we have been what we have been. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | Every cause produces more than one effect. — Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903, British philosopher 2 likes |
 | Before you sell the medicine, you have to sell the disease. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 2 likes |
| The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 2 likes |
 | The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. |
 | The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions. |
 | It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe. |
| Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin. |
 | All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians’ warning that correlation is not causation. |
 | Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. |
 | It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. |
| What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. |
 | Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. |
 | We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. |
 | The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. |
 | One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. |
 | Because of an apple Eden fell and Troy was destroyed. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | The stronger the drunkenness, the more bitter the wine. |
 | Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
 | Events with major consequences can arise from insignificant incidents. |
 | The difference between organic and mechanical in social matters is a moral one: the “organic” is the result of innumerable humble acts; the “mechanical” is the result of one decisive act of arrogance. |
Bible Quotes
 | God is not mocked. For whatever a man might sow, that also he will reap. — Epistles of Paul ‐ Galatians 6:7 4 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Everything happens for a reason. Omnia causa fiunt. 100 likes |
| Bad from the good. De malo, bonum. 62 likes |
| Not who but what. Non quis, sed quid. 38 likes |
 | The cause is hidden, the result is obvious. Causa latet, vis est notissima. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 35 likes |
 | Blessed is he who has been able to know the causes of things. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 35 likes |
| After this, therefore, because of this. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. (logical fallacy) 19 likes |
| Upon removal of the cause, the effect is removed. Subita causa, fellitur offectue. — Latin maxim |
 | There is nothing without a reason. Nihil est sine ratione. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
Quotes in Verse
 | For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | Did the night lead me me to these streets? or did these streets lead me to the night? — Dinos Christianopoulos, 1931-2020, Greek poet 3 likes |
 | Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is. |
Funny Quotes
 | Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 14 likes |
Non-English Quotes
 | The nothing nothings. Das Nichts nichtet. |
Ancient Greek
| Nothing is without a cause. Άνευ αιτίου ουδέν εστιν. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | Nothing comes of nothing and nothing disintegrates into nothing. Μηδέν εκ του μη όντος γίνεσθαι μηδ’ ες το μη ον φθείρεσθαι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | Nothing without cause, nothing without effect. Ουδέν ατέκμαρτον, ουδέν τυφλόν. — Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian 3 likes |
 | The responsibility lies with the one who chooses, the god is not the cause. Αιτία ελομένου θεός αναίτιος. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
| The holy is holy because it is loved by the gods, or it is loved by the gods because it is holy? Άρα το όσιον ότι όσιόν εστιν, φιλείται υπό των θεών, ή ότι φιλείται όσιόν εστιν. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | The will of Zeus, the hand of Hephæstus. Βούλευμα μεν το Δίον, Ηφαίστου δε χειρ. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ((for the torture of Prometheus)) 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. 4 likes |
 | Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. 3 likes |
| You reap what you sow. 3 likes |
| As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it. 2 likes |
| What goes around comes around. 2 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Garbage in, garbage out. — American saying ([GIGO] from the early days of computing) 4 likes |
