“I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Whether we listen to a sonata of Beethoven’s, watch highlight reels of Michael Jordan, or learn a law of Newton’s, we view… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' --… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe,… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen.… — Anouk Aimee Copy Share Image
I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of… — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“I don't know," I said. "There isn't always an explanation for everything." "Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that's your bag, but they're… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image