Cause And Effect Quotes

“Listening is an effect. Communication is cause.”
― Meir Ezra

“They say that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian rain forest, it can change the weather half a world away. Chaos theory. What it means is that everything that happens in this moment is an accumulation of everything that’s come before it. Every breath. Every thought. There is no innocent action. Some actions end up having the force of a tempest. Their impact cannot be missed. Others are the blink of an eye. Passing by unnoticed. Perhaps only God knows which is which.

All I know today is that you can think that what you’ve done is only the flap of a butterfly wing, when it’s really a thunderclap. And both can result in a hurricane.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Fractured

“Consequences,” said Gamache. “We must always consider the consequences of our actions. Or inaction. It won’t necessarily change what we do, but we need to be aware of the effect.”
― Louise Penny, A Better Man

“If you are the effect of it, you caused it.”
― Meir Ezra

“To communicate despite all invitations to do otherwise is to be cause.”
― Meir Ezra

“My point is, all these discussions about good and evil, where do they ever lead? A man is dead, and three children were orphaned. No amount of moral judgment and labeling will change that. Instead, we should ask ourselves what factors led to this situation and then work on improving those. Cause and effect, that’s all that matters.”
― Nicolas Lietzau, Dreams of the Dying

“. . . Aristotle . . . said that men were not at all euqal by nature, since some were born for slavery and others born to be masters.
Aristotle was right; but he mistook the effect for the cause . . . if there are slaves by nature, it is only because there has been slavery against nature. Force made the first slaves; and their cowardice perpetuates their slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“We can then rightly presume that we live in a world which is guided by absurdity. The word ‘absurdity’ in this context contrasts with the term ‘reasoning.’ So we live in a world in which reasoning fails. It is a place where the causes do not always lead to the effect.”
― Nihar Satpathy, The Puzzles of Life

“The old man continued, “You have been a real blessing to me. Today, I understand something I didn’t see before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don’t want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I’m going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don’t want to do so....

And, as he smothered the coals in the hookah, he told the boy that he could begin to sell tea in the crystal glasses. Sometimes, there's just no way to hold back the river.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Because of what you have done things will happen later which can't possibly be foreseen.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Violations of love in relation to others are punished by feelings of fear. The presence of fear indicates a wrong to be amended. Ignoring your feelings is an infringement of the Law of cause & effect. Your feeling is the effect. Suppressed feelings are a refusal to feel the effect after the cause. To release fear, you must be willing to feel the effect your previous actions have had on others. The mental hiding place of fear uses excuses to avoid feeling. Blame, judgment and projection are mental shields that fear hides behind. Willingness to take responsibility for your life ensures that the effect of your thoughts, words, and actions are immediate. If you impinge on another, you feel it instantly. Also, if there is an infringement on you by a friend or colleague, you feel the effect. If you ignore the feelings imposed on you by another it leads to a victim mentality. Feeling the effect of someone else’s action ensures they must take responsibility for their behavior towards you.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“No incident, however seemingly trivial, is unimportant in the scheme of things. One event leads to another, which triggers something else and before you know where you are, the ramifications spread far and wide throughout History. Echoing down the ages. Getting fainter and fainter, but never completely dying away. They talk of The Harmony of the Spheres, but History is A Symphony of Echoes. Every little action has huge consequences. They’re not always apparent, and sometimes, in our game, sometimes effect comes before cause, not after. It makes your head ache.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

“Praising others problem is not going to compensate for your problem”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“As we fail to locate the first cause that set in motion the cause and effect cycle, is it just possible that the first cause evolved from an inferior set of causes that did not have any effects?”
― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

“Working hard without a cause is like wasting your time sincerely”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Our lives are ruled by these small, seemingly ordinary moments hat turn out to have improbably large effects. Such randomness is much more common in human affairs than in nature...”
― Ken Liu, The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary

“A true activist understands that the issue is the cause, not the attention on them that comes from supporting the cause.”
― Germany Kent

“He was not discontented, but he was too restless, too preoccupied. Each day led so relentlessly to the next, linked by cause and effect, anticipation and result, preparation and achievement.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

“In volition, it was said, we grasp ourselves directly as power in action. It seems that once man has this idea, he needed only to extend it to things to create the concept of force”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

“Hem bilindiği gibi, tembellik bütün kusurların anasıdır.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Why fight endlessly for a cause? Has anyone ever fought for the effects?”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“Perhaps the reason almost half of the US population does not vote is related to the election choices.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Two facts related by time and place and not necessarily related by cause and effect.”
― Jeffrey Kluger, Simplexity: The Simple Rules of a Complex World

“Start planting noble seeds and watch your life grow. (p. 119)”
― Miles Neale, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human

“What happens next is simply the aftermath of all unrest; and uncontrollable outcome of cause and effect.”
― Natalie Nascenzi, The Aftermath of Unrest

“The problem with the idea of cause and effect is that what is deemed the cause is an effect.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Because I think there are events of another category that are likewise not fixed in a causal chain: acts of volition. Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduce to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.”
― Ted Chiang, Omphalos

“Mad Human Disease is the very natural consequence of constantly ignoring and disobeying any of the many of Nature’s Laws.”
― Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy