Explanation Quotes

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

If people screw me, I screw back in spades.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

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.

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Words are useless, especially sentences.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

I have nothing intelligent to say.

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.