Their Causes Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in…
— John Playfair
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The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
— Horace-Benedict de Saussure
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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
— Arthur Miller
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It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
— Ptolemy
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
— Nancy Mitford
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The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a…
— Louis Agassiz
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Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.
— Frank Rich
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Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.
— Gunnar Myrdal
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements'…
— Robert Henri
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Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and…
— Tony Robbins
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One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting -…
— Evgeny Morozov
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The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I…
— Nancy Mitford
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are…
— Michael Shermer
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
— Noam Chomsky
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Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Who Wrote These Their Causes Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Their Causes Quotes as follows: