Consequence Quotes

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.

Consequence is no coincidence.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

Consequences are unpitying.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.