It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Sorry,” she said, “I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.” “Explain… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“How do you explain why the sun rises every morning? How do you explain the stars in the sky? How do you… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
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