Explanation Quotes

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

I don't read books, I write them.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

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.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

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

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

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.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

When I sing, people shut up.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

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

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

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.

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.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.