Explanation Quotes

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

Was he a doper or was he just a loser?

Like a mountain that's growing.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?

Things from the heart don't have an explanation.

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

I think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation that the Russians put forth is simply not plausible.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.

When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, " said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.