causes Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about causes.
“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”
- Avicenna
“The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.”
- Chauncey Wright
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.”
- Avicenna
“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
- Charles Horton Cooley
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
- Plato
“There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.”
- Paula Deen
“We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.”
- M. Scott Peck
“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
- Avicenna
“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.”
- William Arthur Ward