Effects Quotes

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work. View quote
James Heckman
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. View quote
Carl Sandburg
From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow. (Joseph Addison)
Lofty designs must close in like effects. View quote
Robert Browning
We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them. View quote
Dion Fortune
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. View quote
Thomas Merton
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it. View quote
Neil Postman
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. View quote
Pearl Bailey
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. View quote
Milton Friedman
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. (Pearl S. Buck)
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Economic growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking. New recipes produce fewer unpleasant side effects and generate more economic value per unit of raw material. View quote
Paul Romer
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work. View quote
Walter Hill
The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially. View quote
Harry Harlow