Explanation Quotes
903 quotes by 731 authors
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
— Erykah Badu
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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
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
— Bruce Barton
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
— Warren Beatty
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding…
— Tony Campolo
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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
— Tony Campolo
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I…
— Julia Child
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need…
— Eric Clapton
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I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense…
— William J. Clinton
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation…
— Harlan Coben
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
— Paulo Coelho
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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries…
— Maya Angelou
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
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God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
— Douglas Adams
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way…
— Richard Dawkins
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It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
— Ronald Knox
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence…
— Bruce Alberts
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