Explanation Quotes · Page 21

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.

— Marilu Henner

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

— George S. Patton

“And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.”

— Oscar Wilde

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I…

— C. S. Lewis

Do not explain yourself to others, because those person who believes you doesn't need your explanation.

— Anonymous

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

— Leonard Cohen

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is…

— Aldous Huxley

“You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful…

— Richard Dawkins

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of…

— Isaac Asimov

Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is…

— Claire McCaskill

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict…

— Richard Dawkins

I am who I am. I do things the way I want to. There s a reason for what I do and…

— Nishan Panwar

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million…

— Terry Pratchett

[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as…

— David Quammen

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,…

— John Fowles

So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their…

— Jonathan Hull

As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…

— Karl Marx

“Look, I owe you a kind of explanation. I know you probably think I’m a horrid bitch from the plant Schizophrenia, but…

— David Levithnan Rachel Cohn

I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours…

— Anonymous

Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,…

— Robert Nozick

If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.

— J.R. Ward

You have the right to leave someone. But tell them why, cause nothing is more painful than knowing you're not worth an…

— Anonymous

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

— Rita Dove

“Everything has an explanation, but not everything needs to be explained.”

— Erin Mack

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

— Nellie L. McClung

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

— Taylor Mali

“Your dream was given to you, by you. You don’t owe the world any explanation for it”

— Onipede Ayomide

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and…

— Jack Kerouac

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

— Calvin Coolidge

Sometimes you won't get an apology or an explanation but that's fine because you're STRONG enough to move on without it.

— Sonya Parker

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of…

— Ronald Knox

I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.

— Leila Slimani

Don't ask me for an explanation. Don't ask me why. Just accept that I like being being with you.

— Anonymous

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

— Oswald Chambers

Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate…

— Seth Godin

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky