Effect Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing. — Carlos Castaneda
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
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
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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