Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
— Samuel Johnson
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He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
— Samuel Johnson
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
— Carlos Castaneda
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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to…
— Joseph Sobran
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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
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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
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Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often,…
— Barack Obama
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
— John Arbuthnot
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced…
— Charles Darwin
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless…
— Charles Lapworth
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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
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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
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[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
— Ernst Mayr
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say,…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity...
— George Herbert
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