Explain Away Quotes

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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain… — Graydon Carter
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts… — Donald Woods Winnicott
There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete… — Denis Leary
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,… — William Kittredge
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. — Paul Claudel
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.… — Karl Popper
A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder. — Dave Matthews
One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors-… — Susan Collins
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if… — Alec Guinness
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. — Jack Bruce
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRSâ€™s behavior â€œinappropriate. â€ No, using… — George Will
In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating… — Sheryl Sandberg
People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be… — Napoleon Hill
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and… — Moby
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and… — Aldous Huxley
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away… — Edwin Land
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no… — Georges Braque
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the… — Charles de Lint

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