quotes about Explanation
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
-- Agatha Christie -
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
-- Agatha Christie -
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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
-- Alec GuinnessSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
-- Brian Greene -
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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ***** for president, so I went along with them.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
-- Carl Sandburg -
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
-- Charles FortSource : Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.27, Penguin
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
-- D. T. MaxSource : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
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When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
-- Dan BrownSource : Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.298, Simon and Schuster
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Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
-- David Deutsch -
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
-- David Deutsch -
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
-- Dean Koontz -
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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 -
I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.
-- Dinah Shore -
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 -
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It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.
-- Edie Brickell -
I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
-- Elvis Costello -
I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
-- Errol Morris -
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
-- Ethel Mumford -
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
-- Federico Fellini -
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The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann -
They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.
-- Geoffrey Wood -
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
-- George IlesSource : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
-- George Leigh Mallory -
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Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.
-- Gunter Grass -
How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.
-- Hanoi HannahSource : "The Life and Death of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, donnorth.com. October 17, 2016.
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If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.
-- Henry Dwight Sedgwick -
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
-- Hilton KramerSource : "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". 1989.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
-- Horace -
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
-- Isaac Newton -
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
-- Isabel Allende -
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 -
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
-- J. Richard Clarke -
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
-- Jad AbumradSource : "Transom Manifesto" by Jad Abumrad, transom.org. July 26, 2012.
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I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
-- Janet Reno -
To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.
-- Jeff JarrettSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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There are no explanations, there are no answers.
-- Jessica Lange -
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He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
-- Jethro TullSource : Song: Watching Me Watching You
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My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
-- Jethro Tull -
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
-- Johannes Kepler -
Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.
-- Julio Olalla -
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The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
-- Lincoln Child -
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
-- Lou Holtz -
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.
-- Lou Holtz -
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Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
-- Maria Montessori -
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
-- Maurice Bejart -
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask
-- Max Tegmark -
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
-- Max Weber -
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
-- Maxfield ParrishSource : Said to William O. Chessman on March 27, 1936. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.
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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
-- Neil DiamondSource : Song: I Am..... I Said
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If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
-- Nelson GoodmanSource : Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
-- Olavo de Carvalho -
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
-- Patricia Briggs -
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I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.
-- Paula Radcliffe -
Parade your pallor in iniquity.
-- Pete TownshendSource : Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel
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Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
-- Pete Townshend -
I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of
-- Ray Charles -
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God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
-- Rick Warren -
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
-- Rita DoveSource : Rita Dove (1989). “The Yellow House on the Corner: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press
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There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
-- Robert Breault -
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.
-- Robert Foster Bennett -
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You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
-- Robert Fulghum -
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
-- Rumi -
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
-- Russell Crowe -
Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
-- Sammy Hagar -
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I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
-- Saul LeiterSource : Saul Leiter, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2008). “Saul Leiter”, Steidl / Edition7L
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Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
-- Solange KnowlesSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.
-- Sonny BargerSource : FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Oct 24, 2015
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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
-- Tahir Shah -
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One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.
-- Takuan SohoSource : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
-- Todd BridgesSource : "Todd Bridges Says Wearing Diaper Was His Drug-Abuse Low Point". www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.
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Medication without explanation is obscene.
-- Toni Cade Bambara -
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
-- Tony Campolo -
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I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
-- Tracy Chapman -
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
-- Vaclav Hlavaty -
God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.
-- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
-- William of Ockham -
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
-- William of Ockham -
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
-- William of Ockham -
Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.
-- Dimitar Sasselov -
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The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.
-- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -
I thought there was something in Ted Cruz`s dignity that prevented him by endorsing a candidate like that, because that was the best explanation of what he did.
-- Josh Barro -
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.
-- Martin Manser -