Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself… — Karl Ove Knausgard
I do loathe explanations. — James M. Barrie
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make… — Alexander Calder
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate. — Shelby Steele
If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany. — Criss Jami
Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation . — Rajneesh
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon… — N. T. Wright
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape… — Joseph Conrad
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple… — Galileo Galilei
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to… — Brian Greene
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for… — Gail Collins
I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist. — Dinesh D'Souza
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. — Charles Darwin
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks… — Paul Davies
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a… — Richard Dawkins
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. — Stockwell Day
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For… — Jared Diamond
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. — Benjamin Disraeli
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. — Albert Einstein
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and… — George Eliot

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