Consequence Quotes

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

Actions have consequences.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.