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There are alternate explanations for everything. — James Cook

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. — William Of Ockham

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being. — Jack Kerouac

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans. — Deyth Banger

Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature. — Ilchi Lee

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student. — Hyman Bass

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. — Rabindranath Tagore

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. — Stockwell Day

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already. — Mike McCurry

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. — Angelus Silesius

Where there is no more other explanation there is always another explanation of why there is no other explanation. — Auliq Ice

Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again? — Neal Stephenson

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation. — Jacques Barzun

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout. — Jethro Tull

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. — Robert Fulghum

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race. — Victor J. Stenger

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany. — Criss Jami

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. — Wendell Berry

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. — Jesse Jackson

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard

Medication without explanation is obscene. — Toni Cade Bambara

I'd lie for you and that's the truth. — Meat Loaf

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm not used to people sticking around when things go bad," she said, by way of explanation. — Alexander Freed

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience. — Jad Abumrad

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. — Jane Austen

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. — C.S. Lewis

I see the light in your smile. — Stevie Wonder

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. — Paulo Coelho

Words are useless, especially sentences. — Madonna Ciccone

God is the explanation of all things. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. — Robert Breault

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation? — J.R.R. Tolkien

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. — Sonny Barger

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation? — Francis Chan

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self. — John Eccles

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her. — Wilkie Collins

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation. — Gaston Bachelard

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. — John Lancaster Spalding

It's complicated."
"Yes, until someone explains it to you! — Fredrik Backman

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation. — Auliq Ice

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. — Salman Rushdie

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way. — Taylor Mali

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ... — Desson Thomson

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. — J. Richard Clarke

God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists. — William Lane Craig

I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. — Shannon A. Thompson

I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Cal," he said by way of explanation. "I owe that guy, like, a mountain of burgers. It's getting embarrassing. — Rachel Hawkins

Make me see" - perhaps the best thing we can hope to accomplish from an explanation. — Lee LeFever

Things from the heart don't have an explanation. — Pope Francis

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track. — Peyton Reed

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. — Edith Wharton

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching. — Jethro Tull

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible. — Ram Dass

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. — Oswald Chambers

An alternate explanation is not a refutation. — Gregory Koukl

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. — Pete Townshend

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening. — Ji-li Jiang

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation. — Alan Cohen

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. — Isabel Allende

Like a mountain that's growing. — Neil Young

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law. — Paul Ryan

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate. — Bob Seger

He looks at me, not like he's waiting for an explanation, but like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. — Veronica Roth

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others. — Bruce Weinstein

But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily. — Saul Bellow

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys. — Dennis Rodman

If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation. — Erik Larson

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever. — Sarah Dessen

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. — Pete Gill

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. — Baltasar Gracian

People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology. — Ryan O'Connell

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind. — Antony Flew

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. — Tom Stoppard

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me. — David Bowie

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost. — Neil Diamond

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse. — Malachy McCourt

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP. — Otis Redding

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
But love unexplained is clearer — Rumi

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach

He demands an explanation. — Graham Swift

Explanations are for cowards. — J. Ross Clara

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation. — Devorah Kalani

Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. — Langston Hughes

Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth. — Karen Marie Moning

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 anything. — E.F. Schumacher

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library. — Elizabeth Gilbert