Top 100 Cause Effect Quotes
#1. Gods it's well done, she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She felt things all coming together, pushing her into this place, at this time, having done this thing.
China Mieville
#2. Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.
Ramakrishna
#3. Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
Djuna Barnes
#4. This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round" (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.
Dada Bhagwan
#6. I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
Ray Dalio
#7. There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke Of Norfolk
#8. The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
Corliss Lamont
#9. The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today ... Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.
William H. Masters
#10. Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma
#11. I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg
#12. The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined.
Alan Lightman
#16. One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this is due solely to your signature.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
James Buchan
#18. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!
Maddy Malhotra
#19. Arise without conditions, away from cause and effect, when the whole of existence is conditioned and relative, and is within the law of cause and effect?
Walpola Rahula
#20. I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.
Nick Cave
#21. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.
Suzy Kassem
#22. Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#23. If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
Julius Erving
#24. A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.
Vera Nazarian
#25. A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow.
J.W. Lord
#26. I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
Tony Gilroy
#27. Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
Arthur Miller
#28. Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.
Marianne Williamson
#29. No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.
Suzy Kassem
#30. Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
Max Frisch
#31. The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
Jane Addams
#32. The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
Ovid
#33. No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
#34. Alas ... I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
Voltaire
#35. 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.
Hunter S. Thompson
#36. It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim
Jason Najum
#37. Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
Thomas Hobbes
#38. Cause-and-effect will not explain even the individuality of a single dandelion.
D.H. Lawrence
#39. Like it or not, sin has consequences. Which is why God lovingly warns us against it. Thankfully, He is merciful and ready to forgive if we ask Him. But that doesn't erase natural consequences of our actions. Cause and effect."
"The Secret of Pembrooke Park.
Julie Klassen
#40. But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#41. Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially - with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect - are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact.
Steven D. Levitt
#42. To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is the cause of which is back of all things, and the product only the effect, then he is tied to the effect and is limited by it.
Walter Russell
#43. 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?
Jim Rohn
#44. God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
Marianne Williamson
#45. There is no cause and effect, when one is connected to spirit,
For when desires in a man diminish, he draws nearer to his spirit;
When desires in a man cease to exist, he becomes immortal.
Gian Kumar
#46. Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
Mahavira
#47. So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it?
Neale Donald Walsch
#48. -Every problem has a course and a cause. Every cause has effect. Every effect has a consequence, every consequence a solution
Ikechukwu Joseph
#50. The negative energies when sent out in the universe will reap an equivalent or more of that. It can come back as health problems, an accident, material loss or painful relationships.
Hina Hashmi
#51. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.
Frederick Lenz
#52. I've had some experience of this love, this love that rules our hearts, which is the soul of our souls; all it got me was a kiss and twenty kicks in the ass. How could so beautiful a cause have produced in you such an abominable effect?
Voltaire
#53. Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
W. L. George
#54. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!
Dada Bhagwan
#56. It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
Thomas Troward
#57. There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.
Orson Scott Card
#58. A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.
Edith Hamilton
#59. Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.
Gary Zukav
#60. Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.
Hsing Yun
#61. Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
Anna Brownell Jameson
#63. Buddha teaches that there are many causes and many conditions and always refers to causes and conditions in the plural, never just as cause and effect. We are presented with a very complex picture of how things work.
Traleg Kyabgon
#64. We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.
Dolores Cannon
#65. The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
Umberto Eco
#66. Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
Rachel Carson
#67. Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.
Clement Greenberg
#69. Prayers from fear, doubt, or worry in your mind don't come true.
Maddy Malhotra
#70. It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Praying and then doubting whether it will be heard or manifested is really doubting the Universe's power.
Maddy Malhotra
#72. Moreover, without measurements, it is virtually impossible to identify the cause of performance problems and track the effect of improvements.
Anonymous
#73. Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.
Robin Wasserman
#74. Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#75. Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#76. Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
Alexander Pope
#77. Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.
Bernard Wolfe
#78. Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
George Henry Lewes
#79. You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.
Alexander McCall Smith
#80. An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions
Ayn Rand
#82. cause and effect act in webs, not chains.
Steve Grand
#83. When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.
Lundy Bancroft
#84. Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
Camille Paglia
#85. Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
Bernard Beckett
#86. When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause and effect, beginnings and ends, don't have any impact or relevance.
Wayne Dyer
#87. Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.
Ally Carter
#88. The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".
Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff
#89. Violent action is unclear to most of those who get caught up in it. Experience is fragmentary; cause and effect,why and how, are torn apart. Only sequence exists. First this then that. And afterward, for those who survived, a lifetime of trying to understand
Salman Rushdie
#90. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.
Stan Goff
#91. The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
Brian Greene
#92. Somedays you're the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball
Pablo
#93. In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil
Katherine Applegate
#94. Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
Baruch Spinoza
#95. The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#96. If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#97. Ignorance' (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and 'Knowledge' (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.
Dada Bhagwan
#98. This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.
Orson Scott Card
#99. There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.
Suzy Kassem
#100. Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.
Johnny Rich
