Explanations Quotes

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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee… — Jonah Goldberg
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. — Fred Brooks
We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty. — Simon Sinek
In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but… — Pope Francis
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and… — David Deutsch
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating… — Al Stewart
Everyone isnâ€™t logical. Everything doesnâ€™t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind,… — Tammara Webber
Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly, — Chris Colfer
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science… — Victor J. Stenger
The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen… — Thomas Merton
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the… — Orson Scott Card
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to… — Mao Zedong
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only… — Rene Descartes
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate… — Michael Persinger
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
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

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