Explanations Quotes

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A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be… — Hermann Hesse
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. — Lewis Carroll
I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where… — Malcolm Gladwell
we would understand much more about lifeâ€™s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities… — Jose Saramago
The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want… — Harold B. Lee
I'm not dating Balthazar. I'm pretend dating him. Which involves some not pretend hand-holding. And maybe some not pretend kissing. But it's all actually pretend,… — Claudia Gray
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. — Ishmael Beah
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or… — Michael Pollan
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think… — Erich Segal
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? — Allison Pearson
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle
If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. — J R Ward
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for… — William A. Dembski
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain… — E F Schumacher
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true… — Alfie Kohn

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