Analysis Quote by Steven Magee

After the collection of facts, the search for causes.

— Hippolyte Taine

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

— Ray Dalio

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

— Hippolyte Taine

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause…

— László Krasznahorkai

“Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal links, do…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may…

— Jared Diamond

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to…

— Malcolm X

“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