Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. — Carrie Fisher
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion… — Anthony Hopkins
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. — Elbert Hubbard
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. — Jesse Jackson
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There… — Nancy Kerrigan
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul,… — D. H. Lawrence
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. — Oscar Levant
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. — C.S. Lewis
Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation -… — Rush Limbaugh
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. — Katherine Mansfield
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is… — W. Somerset Maugham
I never know how much of what I say is true. — Bette Midler
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. — Hector Hugh Munro
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. — Anais Nin
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or… — Bill Nye
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. — Camille Paglia
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. — Steven Pinker
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. — Steven Pinker
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act. — John Podhoretz
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they… — Dennis Prager
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. — Dennis Prager
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other… — Anna Quindlen
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley

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