Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.” — Vera C. Rubin Copy Share Image
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know… — Hazel Scott Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has been getting favorable comments from white supremacists, from American Nazis. And any explanation of Donald Trump's rise that does… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even… — Jill Patton Walsh Copy Share Image
Traditional murder mysteries are interesting because they're ostensibly about a horrible thing - murder - but underneath that, they're about restoring order… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice. — Joseph Dunninger Copy Share Image
There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Don't jump to conclusions, there may be a perfectly good explanation for what you just saw. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time with explanation. People want to hear what they want to hear — Insane & Insomniac Copy Share Image
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was gained by association before it was understood by explanation.” — Robert E. Coleman Copy Share Image
“…there is no other logical explanation for how things ultimately worked out except by God’s hand.” — Kim De Blecourt Copy Share Image
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already. — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
“If you ever have to do a complicated, multistep explanation to say why what you’re doing is valuable, it probably isn’t.” — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
“how do you go on breathing and moving and doing things when you know there is no explanation?” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
