Explanation Quotes · Page 15

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is…

— Charlaine Harris

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

— Woodrow Wilson

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly…

— Isak Dinesen

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

— Peter Dicken

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

— Peter Medawar

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

— Paulo Coelho

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

— Langston Hughes

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power…

— RuPaul

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of…

— Terry Pratchett

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations…

— Richard Dawkins

I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means…

— Dave Sim

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait…

— Richard Dawkins

For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the…

— Kenneth Keniston

It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should…

— Louis Menand

I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators…

— Richard A. Falk

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail…

— Jonathan Haidt

It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made…

— Daniel Dennett

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which…

— Margaret Mead

I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of…

— L.A. Paul

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for…

— Anonymous

God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

— Brad Blanton

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is useless to explain to a person who is already holding a conclusion.”

— Nitin Namdeo

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

— Robert Breault

“Do not give explanation to anyone, everyone understands only what they want to understand.”

— Nitin Namdeo

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

— Stephen Hawking

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the…

— Oscar Wilde

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

— Albert Bandura

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

— Stephen Hawking

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

— Ali Vincent

“Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat.”

— Al Stewart

The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

“When our lives are difficult beyond description, we must remember that our God is good beyond explanation.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

— Pete Gill

Give explanations of things only if the explanation is very important or if the person is..!!

— Ritesh