Quotes About Cause

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of schizophrenia that are caused by other types of autoimmune disease?

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Whatever we see, or feel, or do, whatever action there is anywhere in the universe, while being the effect of past work on the one hand, becomes, on the other, a cause in its turn, and produces its own effect.

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

The will is not free it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect but there is something behind the will which is free

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see.

The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

These three laws, by which our thinking is naturally impelled from one idea to another which resembles it, or which is next to it, or is its effect—these three laws characterize all our mental operations, including all our reasoning, and specifically they characterize our scientific ideas. Of the three laws of association of ideas, the association or connection of ideas by cause and effect, says Hume, is the most powerful connection between our ideas.

Loyalty was the most fundamental of samurai virtues. Without loyalty there was nothing. To Kawakami, who had looked at loyalty from every possible angle - examining loyalty was, after all, his occupation - it had become increasingly clear that the days of personal allegiance were coming to an end. Loyalty, in the future, must be to a cause, a principle, an idea, not a man or a clan.

The state is not a cause but an articulation of secularization.

It's ironic, isn't it? A hundred psychology students, and not one of us recognized a classic psychopath. You know the strange thing? I wished I had done everything he claimed I had. If I had, then it would all have made sense: I would have been getting what I deserved. But I hadn't done any of it, and yet that made absolutely no difference to what happened. There was no such thing as cause and