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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 |
| The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 2 likes |
 | 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 |
 | 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 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 |
 | Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. 3 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 |
