Henry Ford Quotes

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

When progress seems unattainable, it is easier for people to buy into a cause that promotes a false notion of who is to blame.

A large portion of pauperism and misery is really attributable to bad government and injustice.

It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.

When you keep un-bundling various aspects of a social problem, you can arrive at a very basic, common space.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Everything has a cause.

What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.

If you can really hear more of the root cause, maybe there are ways that we can get beyond it, or destroy it, actually.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.