Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Everything has a cause.

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

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.

Future events cast their shadow before them.

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

There is something in omens.

As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.