Their Effect Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
— William Hazlitt
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
— Thomas Merton
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Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.…
— Milton Friedman
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The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of…
— John Stuart Mill
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Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of re-deployment, of the…
— Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that…
— Bill Crawford
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The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual…
— Ben Hecht
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you are psychic you may see that the smiling faces aren't smiling at all, inside. You can eliminate those individuals from your life and…
— Frederick Lenz
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I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my…
— Mose Allison
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The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.
— Eugene Delacroix
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If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for…
— Frederick Lenz
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
— Thomas Merton
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This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of…
— Michel Houellebecq
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Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general…
— George Orwell
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Be careful with your words. Coz once they are said, they can't be taken back nor their effect can be rectified. They may be forgiven…
— Anurag Prakash Ray
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In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder…
— Joe Simon
Who Wrote These Their Effect Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Their Effect Quotes as follows: