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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
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
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
— Stockwell Day
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
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
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
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
— Steven Pinker
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
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
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
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
We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
— Adolf Hitler
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
— Olavo De Carvalho
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
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
God is the explanation of all things.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
