Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Everything has a cause.

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

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

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

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

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

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

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

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously…. If we are forced to infer a process only from its … results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

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.

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