Explanation Quotes
903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors
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His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?†“I’m a governess,†she said.…
— Julia Quinn
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Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for…
— Paulo Coelho
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational…
— Douglas Adams
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a…
— Charles Yu
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You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t…
— Terry Pratchett
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I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an…
— Pittacus Lore
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Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that…
— Carl Jung
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I don’t like the idea of “understanding†a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work…
— Federico Fellini
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the…
— Iain Banks
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IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where…
— Unknown Author
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Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.
— Renata Adler
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We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations…
— Dan Ariely
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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
— Patricia Briggs
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Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled…
— Frances Hardinge
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No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you…
— Rajneesh
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any…
— Anne Lamott
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