Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing… — Elisabeth Elliot
The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the… — Phineas Quimby
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus… — Nathan Shedroff
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring. — Rebecca Lim
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. — Edith Wharton
The American vice is explanation. — Gore Vidal
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he… — Ronald Blythe
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. — William Beveridge
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates… — Adam Weishaupt
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that… — Gregory Bateson
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for… — John Lahr
The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or… — Octavio Paz
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. — Don DeLillo
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner
I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can...… — Oren Peli
People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair… — Hedi Slimane
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson
The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the… — Frederick Lenz
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… — Florence King
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the… — Denise Mina
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. — Max Weber
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling… — Swami Vivekananda
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:… — Gerhard Richter
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar

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