Effect Quotes

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. View quote
John Ruskin
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. View quote
Henri Bergson
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. View quote
Albert Einstein
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. View quote
Graham Greene
Every cause produces more than one effect. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. View quote
Edmund Burke
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. (Robert Fogel)
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. View quote
Robert Burton
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. View quote
William Cowper
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. View quote
Václav Havel
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. View quote
Henry Adams
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. (Havelock Ellis)
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. View quote
Ovid
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. View quote
Karl Popper
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. View quote
Jean Cocteau
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficiallyinfluence the lot of mankind. View quote
Albert Einstein