Explanation Quotes

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

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

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

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

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

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

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

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

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

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.

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

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

No excuses. No explanations.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.

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

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

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

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).

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

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

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.

God is the explanation of all things.

What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

Who then will explain the explanation?

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

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

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

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

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.