Explanation Quotes · Page 11

Words are useless, especially sentences.

— Madonna Ciccone

We live by promises not by explanations.

— Adrian Rogers

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

— Smokey Robinson

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

— Ram Dass

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of…

— Tom Stoppard

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

— Dennis Prager

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

— Bruce Barton

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such…

— Carl Jung

It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability…

— Josh Garrels

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular…

— Charles Babbage

Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who…

— Andrew Sullivan

For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the…

— Victor J. Stenger

It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus…

— Rob Bell

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!…

— Anonymous

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because…

— Robert Adams

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human…

— Daniel Dennett

“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,…

— Anthony Bourdain

There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger…

— Anthony de Mello

“The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there…

— John C. Lennox

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of…

— Anonymous

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

— Steven Pinker

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

— James Rachels

“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything”

— Nick Hornby

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

— Stephen King

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

— Maria Montessori

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in…

— Carrie Fisher

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

— Dashiell Hammett

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

— Rajneesh

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

— Robert Cialdini

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

— James Q. Wilson

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

— Charles Fort

If you dont like me then you dont like me. I dont need to know an explanation because Idgaf.

— Alexia