Explanations Quotes

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The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality — Harold Geneen
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is… — Roger Schank
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. — Todd Bridges
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one. — Alec Guinness
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we… — Genesis P-Orridge
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. — Abraham Lincoln
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too… — Emanuel Lasker
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,… — John Fowles
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are… — Norman Macbeth
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished,… — Don Berliner
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones. — William of Ockham
Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. — William of Ockham
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what… — Paulo Coelho
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible… — John Desmond Bernal
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of… — Lilian Whiting
Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on. — Paulo Coelho
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… — Bill Gates
In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able… — John Daido Loori

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