Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other. — Mitchell Ulmann Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time with explanation.People only hear what they want to hear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I always step onto the Street as if I walked in my Home from one Room to the Other — I leave… — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
“The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it… — Rebecca Lim Copy Share Image
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. — Vaclav Hlavaty Copy Share Image
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“Though we run across exceptions, philosophical novels where explanation holds interest, the temptation to explain is one that should almost always be… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image