Cause Quotes

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To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is… — Walter Russell
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it. — Shimon Peres
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a… — T. Harv Eker
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world… — Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if… — Pliny the Elder
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. — Laurence Sterne
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause. — Aristotle
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. — Leonardo da Vinci

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