Explanation Of Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Explanation Of

Explanation Of Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Explanation Of quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. — Ethel Mumford

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. — Jean Baudrillard

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. — John Sladek

The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her? — Mort Sahl

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. — Ronald Blythe

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

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out ... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots ... — Carl Jung

She would give no explanation of the real reasons for her death. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation. — Craig Davidson

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

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

Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide. — Neal Stephenson

So you know you're a ghost?"
I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation? — Christina Dodd

It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay of all creatures and the whole of reality. — Pope Francis

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity. — Peter Drucker

Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go. — Abhijit Naskar

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley — Harold Holzer

Mathematics is the art of explanation. — Paul Lockhart

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. — George Eliot

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. — Steven Pinker

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them. — Mick Jagger

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

The logic of damage. There is often no explanation for it. — Abigail George

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

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. — Eartha Kitt

But surely the simplicity of an explanation is no necessary criterion of its truth.17 — Frans De Waal

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist. — Dinesh D'Souza

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

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me. — Bonnie Raitt

As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit. — Mark Zwonitzer

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. — Richard Dawkins

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct. — James Rachels

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. — Bertrand Russell

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton

The explanation is that their science is only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance. — Gustave Le Bon

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. — Martin Walser

Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe. — Paula Brackston

You know Boosha, of course." "Yeah," Lena says. "What is she, exactly?" "Eccentric," Jett answers immediately and without further explanation. — Matt Wallace

Ever since the first day I'd seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why. — Michelle Madow

The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation. — Henry Dwight Sedgwick

The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask — Max Tegmark

We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising. — Adolf Hitler

The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting. — Jean Webster

I like her explanation better than just being a diminutive
of someone else. — Thalia Chaltas

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. — Olavo De Carvalho

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. — John Wooden

It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things.
Rhiow — Diane Duane

We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us. — Richard Carrier

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. — Anna Quindlen

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy. — Denis Norden

It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors. — Philip K. Dick

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. — Erykah Badu

I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,' Suki shrugged by way of explanation. — Sarah Alderson

A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness. — Agatha Christie

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula — George S. Patton

Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

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

Moist realized that there had to be an explanation for this, but the only one he could think of now was: It's strange. — Terry Pratchett

CHAPTER LI AFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY — Charles Dickens

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained. — Theodora Goss

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

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

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

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

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

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

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. — Robert Stone

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

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

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

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

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

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people, ... The president's going to have to get a touch of reality. — Harry Reid

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence. — B.B. King

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation — Alija Izetbegovic

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition. — Peter Hoeg

Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature. — M. Mitchell Waldrop

I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk. — Ilona Andrews

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation. — Anne Carson

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation. — Claire McCaskill

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William Of Ockham

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

Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now - not that we know too much of the why. — James Dashner

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. — Ronald Knox

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

Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure. — Andrew Murray

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho

I kind of hate over-explanation in comics. — Cullen Bunn

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring. — Rebecca Lim

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided
up America into kingdoms, is that right? — Charlaine Harris