Effect Quotes

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

– Gregory Bateson

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

– James Payn

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

– Irving Kirsch

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That’s oil.

– Barton Gellman

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

– Alfred Marshall

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

– Ezra Cornell

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I begin by considering an effect.

– Maurice Ravel

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

– Daniel Dennett

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

– Donald Berwick

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

– Eve Ensler

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

– Edward Coke

Satire doesn’t effect change.

– P. J. O’Rourke

Smudge your eyeliner. It creates a smoky effect.

– Monica

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

– Pierre Corneille

In the ‘Mass Effect’ universe, there is zero ad libbing.

– Jennifer Hale

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

– Michael Porter

War is just an effect, not a cause.

– Marianne Williamson

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

– John M. Ford

Every person’s every action has an effect.

– Rosanne Cash

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

– Ted Turner

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don’t do it anymore.

– Uwe Boll

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

– William Petty

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

– Wilhelm Ostwald