Explanation Quotes

903 Explanation quotes by 703 unique authors

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and… — Wallace Stevens
When I sing, people shut up. — Barbra Streisand
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. — Elizabeth Taylor
Good luck needs no explanation. — Shirley Temple
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart… — Samuel Witwer
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent… — Aldous Huxley
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not… — Kurt Vonnegut
There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.… — Marya Hornbacher
I like children. If they're properly cooked. — W.C. Fields
Donâ€™t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any… — Nick Hornby
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a… — Gaston Leroux
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing… — Noam Chomsky
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least… — Terry Pratchett
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to… — Emily Dickinson
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. — Agatha Christie
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an… — Malcolm Gladwell
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense… — Hunter S. Thompson

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