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Explanation Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
- Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
- You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things…
- If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for…
- If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another…
- If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
More Explanation Quotes
- The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. — Erykah Badu
- In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was… — Dave Barry
- The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. — Bruce Barton
- My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for… — Warren Beatty
- 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
- There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the… — Tony Campolo
- To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo
- I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell… — Julia Child
- From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it.… — Eric Clapton
- I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with… — William J. Clinton