Quote by Nikolai Gogol

“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.”

— Patricia Moyes

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

— Anonymous

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be against them, but great things happen…

— Jamie Schoffman

“The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“in a highly organized system, the causation is more pronounced and intentional. The elements seem to have been more precisely selected. Things escalate decisively;…

— George Saunders

“Every time we proceed to explain some conjectural law or theory by a new conjectural theory of a higher degree of universality, we are…

— Karl Popper