Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. — Oscar Wilde
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. — Unknown Author
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so… — Ajahn Chah
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to… — Erich Fromm
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating… — Al Stewart
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to… — Ravi Zacharias
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see… — Arthur Keith
I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body… — Dave Sim
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. — John Thomas Sladek
When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus… — Bob Benson
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when… — Elliott Erwitt
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's… — Daniel Dennett
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as… — Leo Tolstoy
People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the… — R C Sproul
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response… — Leonard Nimoy
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal… — Victor LaValle
Everyone isn’t logical. Everything doesn’t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind,… — Tammara Webber
Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly, — Chris Colfer
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. — Stephen Hawking
Science is prediction, not explanation. — Fred Hoyle
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science… — Victor J. Stenger
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is only… — Lewis Wolpert
The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen… — Thomas Merton
The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. — Sonny Barger
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in… — Robert Atkins

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