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If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work. By Ronald Fisher Causation Coefficients Total Partial Work

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. By Charles Caleb Colton Experience Things Imagination Conjecture Effects

For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes By Vilfredo Pareto Roughly Events Effects

Anything that begins has a cause... By Mario Diana Begins

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: This is the cause! By Leo Tolstoy Man Completeness Soul Mind Grasp

Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined. By Alan Lightman Erratic World Effect Past Future

1. Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us. By Ruben Papian Consequence Element Coincidence Processes Happen

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. By Pearl S. Buck Blows Causeless Event Wind Accident

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events. By Laurence J. Peter Effect Science Concerned Relationship Ability

Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences. By Starhawk Interdependent Simple Single Effects Reaction

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax. By Patricia Moyes Interesting Retrospect Events Trifling Lead

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. By Thomas Sowell Causation Things Taught Introductory Statistics

But if there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make, one blind spot, it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is. As a result, again and again we mistake cause for effect; we blame the sailing boat for the wind, or credit the bystander with causing the event. By Matt Ridley World Make Spot Mistake Dominant

To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation. By Karl Popper Causal Explanation Laws Conditions Statement

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver By Robert Wright Govern Harder Behaver Forces Blame

The law of cause and effect gets clear to you, when you realize the eternal truth within you. The failure or success with life is only because of, getting away and coming closer to the natural process of life. By Roshan Sharma Law Effect Clear Realize Eternal

Cause and effect, in the Buddhist sense, though. Any action you undertake creates a seed that will sprout when the conditions are right, creating a good or bad result.""Do you believe in it?"He doesn't allow even a pause. "Very much so. By Jacquie Underdown Buddhist Effect Sense Creating Result

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow. By Swami Vivekananda Follow Knowledge Effects

Study carefully the law of cause and effect. By Vernon Howard Study Effect Carefully Law

Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause? By Johnny Rich Case Relevant

However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only ... whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born. By William James Ideas Automatists Inadequate Causal Efficacy

There's more to life than cause and effect. By Amy Zhang Effect Life

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it. By Arlene J. Chai Fate Doubt Hand

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Forget Human Actions Immeasurably Complex

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature. By Leo Tolstoy Phenomenon Power Human Intellect Encompass

Besides the propositions which assert Sequence or Co-existence, there are some which assert simple Existence; 36 and others assert Causation, which, subject to the explanations [pg 083] which will follow in the Third Book, must be considered provisionally as a distinct and peculiar kind of assertion. By John Stuart Mill Assert Coexistence Existence Causation Book

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences. By Robert M. Pirsig Absolute Certainty Implies Word Difference

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. By Joseph M. Juran Phenomena Consequences Stem

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused. By Richard Machowicz Caused Effect

There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But By Leo Tolstoy Historical Event

To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction. By Namkhai Norbu Karmic Intention Primary Effect Action

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause. By Neale Donald Walsch Blame Seek Seeking Pinpoint Understand

Everything has a cause. By Swami Vivekananda

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these. By Immanuel Kant Things Effects Presuppose Reciprocally Time

Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately ... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection. By David Hume Tis Immediately Ball Relation Evident

The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer. By Jack Finney Effect Answer Human Mind Searches

You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.""Well, didn't you? You were there.""No, I didn't - no ... well, maybe I did, but it didn't feel like it.""Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.""But ... but - " Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. "It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That's silly.""Well, didn't you? By Robert A. Heinlein Something Telling Back Causation Wilson

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable. By Dana E. Donovan Coincidence Unexplainable Explaining

Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own. By Doug Cooper Related Effect Rarely Directly Justice

Whether epidemiology alone can, in strict logic, ever prove causality, even in this modern sense, may be questioned, but the same must also be said of laboratory experiments on animals. - Richard Doll By Siddhartha Mukherjee Logic Causality Sense Questioned Animals

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. By Louis Pasteur Divine Philosophy Universe Good Word

automatic search for causes shapes our thinking, By Daniel Kahneman Automatic Thinking Search Shapes

Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality. By Abhijit Naskar Sciences Natural Causality Fascinating

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things. By William Shakespeare Things Occasions Wherefore

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. By Swami Vivekananda Reproduced Produced Effect

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all. By William James Science Postulating Purposes Order Constantly

Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you. By Peter F. Lake Understanding Mother Proximate Years Figured

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. By Joseph Addison Event Effect Steps Divine Trace

After the collection of facts, the search for causes. By Hippolyte Taine Facts Collection Search

Perceptual fields are limited by the attractor patterns that they're associated with. This means that the capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer. The motive of the viewer automatically determines what is seen; causality is, therefore, ascribed to factors that are, in fact, a function of the biases of the observer and aren't at all instrumental in the situation itself. By David Hawkins, M.d., Ph.d. Limited Perceptual Fields Attractor Patterns

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. By Al Goldstein Effect Universe Reality Indifference

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it. By Charles Fillmore Mental Essentially Whosoever Daily Contact

As the cause is, so the effect will be. By Swami Vivekananda Effect

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. By Gregory Bateson Logic Effect Poor Model

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.' By David Hawkins Beliefs Experiences Determinants External

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist By Albert Bandura Exist Acts People Fact Actions

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Act Free Action Produce Moral

The law of Karma is the law of causation. By Swami Vivekananda Law Karma Causation

And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect. By Scarlett Thomas Connected Events Luck Effect Pure

All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause! By Bill Crawford Change Effect Cycle Life Presents

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us. By Stephen Covey Choices Lives Results People Environment

Coincidence is usually mentioned only when something good happens. Whenever it's something bad, it's easier to blame someone, something. By Kate Griffin Coincidence Mentioned Good Bad Easier

It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things. By Ervin Seale Situation Governs Causation Things Mind

Small causes can often have large effects. Smaller causes can have even bigger effects, and the very biggest effects frequently have no cause at all. Witness, for example, the world. It was created out of nothing, and that has made it the worst calamity the world has ever seen. By Albert Vigoleis Thelen Effects Small Large World Witness

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. By Robin Marantz Henig Logic Narrative Complete Encounters Random

This causation exists as a streamed organization of constantly fluid potential. Anything that can be must first hold the streaming potential to be. It is soul. It is always potential. It is never static. It is never rigid. Its essence is all these, which means it can not be anything other and be the Primal Cause. It is never nothing. Nothing does not exist with it. It is something. It is anything. It is everything. At the same time! Just like your consciousness. Pure Unordered Potential! By Dew Platt Potential Causation Streamed Organization Constantly

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form. By Swami Vivekananda Effect Form Reproduced

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary. By Kiefer Sutherland Effect Consequences Ripple Positive Negative

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". By Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff Effect Life Art Notion Real

...I dabble in causes and effects. By Gregory Maguire Effects Dabble

The discipline of seeing interrelationships gradually undermines older attitudes of blame and guilt. We begin to see that all of us are trapped in structures, structures embedded both in our ways of thinking and in the interpersonal and social milieus in which we live. Our knee-jerk tendencies to find fault with one another gradually fade, leaving a much deeper appreciation of the forces within which we all operate. This does not imply that people are simply victims of systems that dictate their behavior. Often, the structures are of our own creation. But this has little meaning until those structures are seen. For most of us, the structures within which we operate are invisible. We are neither victims nor culprits but human beings controlled by forces we have not yet learned how to perceive. We By Peter M. Senge Structures Guilt Gradually Discipline Interrelationships

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people. By Garrison Keillor Cars People Accidents

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. If By Sam Harris Responsible Determined Prior Product Chance

However, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The fact that people tend to carry umbrellas when it rains creates a high correlation between umbrella carrying and rain showers. However, it is obvious that choosing to carry an umbrella does not cause rainfall. By Eugene Soltes Causation Correlation Necessarily Imply Carry

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. By Albert Einstein Causality Good Live

When trying to fathom an immense, intricate system, drawing direct arrows of causality between micro and macro-components is perilous. Which stock caused the crash of '29? Which person triggered the outbreak of World War I? Which word of Poe's "The Rave" suffuses it with an atmosphere of brooding melancholy? (91) By Thomas Lewis Immense Intricate System Drawing Perilous

The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent. By John Stuart Mill Inductive Methods Event Phenomenon Antecedent

Buddha teaches that there are many causes and many conditions and always refers to causes and conditions in the plural, never just as cause and effect. We are presented with a very complex picture of how things work. By Traleg Kyabgon Conditions Buddha Plural Effect Teaches

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen. By Neel Mukherjee Events Retrospectively Fall Pattern Discern

Whatever begins to exist has a cause. By Glenn Meade Begins Exist

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories - descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work. By Duncan J. Watts Stories Descriptions Work Causal Explanations

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula. By Aristotle. Builder Fulfils Stones Formula Thing

Cause and effect are linked that way in a twisted form. You can pile up all the worlds you like and the twisting will never be undone. By Haruki Murakami Form Effect Linked Twisted Undone

Something happens because something happens because something happens By Jan Gehl

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause. By Aristotle. Truth Knowing

The exercise was meant to illustrate the powerful instinct people have for finding causes for any effect, and also for creating narratives. "The By Michael Lewis Effect Narratives Exercise Meant Illustrate

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present. By Gautama Buddha Present Understand Manifested Results Past

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 event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. By Leo Tolstoy Happened Causesbillions Causescoincided Bring Event

Hume is thus led to the view that, when we say 'A causes B', we mean only that A and B are constantly conjoined in fact, not that there is some necessary connection between them. By Bertrand Russell Hume Fact Led View Constantly

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. By Georges Braque Event Unforeseeable Creates

Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities. By Albert Bandura Joint Occur Instances Occurrences Tend

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. By Baruch Spinoza Effect Nature Flows

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. By Jorge Luis Borges Knowing Events Narrate Effects

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health. By Emily Oster Causal Correlations Job Relationships Data

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one. By David Hume Phenomena Simplest Obvious Assigned True

Reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity be a gross sophism; since it is impossible for you to know anything of the cause, but what you have antecedently, not inferred, but discovered to the full, in the effect. By David Hume Reasonings Argument Deducted Sophism Antecedently

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. By Robert Southey Fault Begets Crime Renders

Deep understanding of causality sometimes requires the understanding of very large patterns and their abstract relationships and interactions, not just the understanding of microscopic objects interacting in microscopic time intervals. By Douglas R. Hofstadter Understanding Deep Interactions Intervals Microscopic

Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events. By Steve Martin Thinking Events Creates Illusion Causal

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. By Ovid Hidden Effect Visible