Quotes About Cause

Clarity in Thinking: If matters get mixed up then scrutinize the cause and you will know what the effects will be.[8]

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Though my View is as spacious as the sky, My actions and respect for cause and effect are as fine as grains of flour.

Thus, reflected Poirot, did some reassurances cause greater alarm than the original remark upon which they sought to improve.

Mademoiselle, if you had not intended it, it would not have happened," said Poirot. "Hands do not move unless minds make them move....

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

If a thing can appear without a cause there is no relation between cause and effect, and there can be no harmony in the world. A potter's work may lead to a weaver's products, and vice versa, which is absurd. The interdependence of cause and effect is ascertained by their logical sequence and proved by its role in practical life. How then can a universe be an accident?

The cause of things, therefore, which makes but is not made, is God; but all other causes both make and are made.

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.