Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the… — Tony Blair
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the… — Orson Scott Card
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the… — William Robertson Smith
As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic.… — Edward Witten
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. — Russell Crowe
The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of… — Eric Roberts
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to… — Mao Zedong
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I… — Yann Martel
A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and… — Henci Goer
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only… — Rene Descartes
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you… — Richard Schmid
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice. — Lou Holtz
The patient needs an experience, not an explanation. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation. — Geoffrey Wood
Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars. — Lionel
Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. — Pete Gill
To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle.… — Ralph P. Martin
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate… — Michael Persinger
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into… — Andrew Sullivan
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and… — Jacques Barzun

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