224 Quotes About Cause-and-effect

The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".

Listening is an effect. Communication is cause.

Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life.

cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

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

So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.

Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.

Because of what you have done things will happen later which can't possibly be foreseen.

Pain and pleasure will keep coming; that is all scientific circumstantial evidence. Pain and pleasure are effective (effects of past causes). In such situations, one should do something that will not cause effects to arise.