Quotes and Sayings 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