Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual… — Unknown Author
There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a… — Harry Browne
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and… — Richard J. Foster
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely… — Paul Tough
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.… — Oswald Chambers
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of… — Jay Leno
We live by promises not by explanations. — Adrian Rogers
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun… — Robert Farrar Capon
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive;… — Alasdair MacIntyre
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct. — James Rachels
Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent… — Peter J. Carroll
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a… — David Attenborough
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I… — Confucius
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. — John Wooden
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right. — Federico Fellini
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience. — Jad Abumrad
There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Things from the heart don't have an explanation. — Pope Francis
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy… — Louis Menand
No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all… — Cus D'Amato

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