Explanation Quotes
We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.
All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science
He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing
Horror is a curiousity, it's used we to go over on real horror it just prepare us for the hard battles. To laugh at somebody's harm... there is even and scientific explanation.
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.("The Wendigo")
Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.
His eyes forward didn’t deviate from the off-road trail, his chiseled jaw gripped shut during the ride. He didn’t release any sound of explanation until we arrived.
Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.
We are living a life full of first experiences, from a first kiss, to the first time giving blood, to conceptual and philosophical explanations of humanity’s firsts.
I love it, " I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations.
Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me.
too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii)
The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.