Explanation Quotes
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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
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
— Eugene Ionesco
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
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
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
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
— Jane Austen
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
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
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
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
Things from the heart don't have an explanation.
— Pope Francis
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
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
— Ram Dass
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
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
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
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
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
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.
— Karen Marie Moning
