I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but…

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

— Meat Loaf

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

— Napoleon Hill

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

— Stephen King

We live by promises not by explanations.

— Adrian Rogers

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

— Baltasar Gracian

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they…

— Norman Macbeth

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'…

— A. N. Wilson

There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the things you…

— Lisa Randall

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing.…

— Will Rogers

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory…

— David Stove

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

— Rick Warren

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

— Peter Weir

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find…

— Eckhart Tolle