Explanation famous quotes

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Fear #Explanation

We live by promises not by explanations.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Promise #Live By #Explanation

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
-- Agatha Christie

#Weakness #Excuse #Explanation

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
-- Agatha Christie

#Said #Explanation

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
-- Alec Guinness

#Needs #Thousand #Explanation

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Writing #Should #Explanation

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.
-- Bonnie Raitt

#Eye #Explanation #Feels

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
-- Brian Greene

#Beautiful #Want #Explanation

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ***** for president, so I went along with them.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#President #Ass #Explanation

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Horizon #Fading #Explanation

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
-- Charles Fort

#Fate #Doors #Explanation

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
-- D. T. Max

#Narrators #Mistrust #Explanation

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
-- Dan Brown

#Multiple #Explanation #Simplest

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
-- David Deutsch

#Creativity #Explanation #Discovering

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
-- David Deutsch

#Tests #Failing #Explanation

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
-- Dean Koontz

#Evil #Excuse #Explanation

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.
-- Dennis Rodman

#Guy #Hendrix #Explanation

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.
-- Dinah Shore

#Men #Explanation

I've got more class than most.
-- Dr. Dre

#Class #Explanation

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Sacred #Explanation

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

#Believe #Explanation #Hard To Believe

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
-- Elvis Costello

#Running #Hands #Explanation

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

#Excuse #Ends #Explanation

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
-- Ethel Mumford

#Pounds #Conventions #Explanation

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
-- Eugene Ionesco

#Astonishment #Gateways #Explanation

He who believes needs no explanation.
-- Euripides

#Believe #Needs #Explanation

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
-- Federico Fellini

#Spontaneity #Explanation

Science is prediction, not explanation.
-- Fred Hoyle

#Science #Predictions #Explanation

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#Needs #Patient #Explanation

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

#Giving #Want #Explanation

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
-- George Iles

#Statistics #Superstitions #Explanation

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
-- George Leigh Mallory

#Explanation #Everest #Mount Everest

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
-- Greg Koukl

#Explanation #Refutation

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.
-- Gunter Grass

#Auschwitz #Explanation

How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Confused #War #Explanation

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
-- Haruki Murakami

#Life #Explanation

The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.
-- Henry Dwight Sedgwick

#Home #Explanation

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
-- Hilton Kramer

#Art #Explanation #Maximum

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

#Difficulty #Explanation

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
-- Isaac Newton

#Inspirational #Live Your Life #Explanation

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
-- Isabel Allende

#Young #Uninformed #Explanation

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

#Dwarves #Explanation #Halls

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
-- J. Richard Clarke

#Arguing #Explanation

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Canyons #Grand Canyon #Explanation

I do loathe explanations.
-- James M. Barrie

#Explanation

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
-- Janet Reno

#Men #Maids #Explanation

To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.
-- Jeff Jarrett

#Fans #Critics #Explanation

There are no explanations, there are no answers.
-- Jessica Lange

#Answers #Explanation

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
-- Jethro Tull

#Explanation

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
-- Jethro Tull

#Deafness #Explanation

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
-- Johannes Kepler

#Atheist #Miracle #Explanation

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.
-- Julio Olalla

#Life Is #Bigger #Explanation

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
-- Lincoln Child

#Explanation #Simplest

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
-- Little Richard

#Bops #Explanation

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
-- Lou Holtz

#Adequate #Explanation

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.
-- Lou Holtz

#Dames #Notre Dame #Explanation

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
-- Maria Montessori

#Character #Taught #Explanation

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
-- Maurice Bejart

#Dance #Anecdotes #Explanation

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Obscure #Explanation

The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask
-- Max Tegmark

#Answers #Hallmark #Explanation

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
-- Max Weber

#Analysis #Judgment #Explanation

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Art #God Knows #Explanation

I have nothing intelligent to say.
-- Meg Tilly

#Intelligent #Explanation

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
-- Neil Diamond

#Said #Lost #Explanation

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
-- Nelson Goodman

#Understanding #Given #Explanation

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
-- Olavo de Carvalho

#War #Crime #Explanation

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.
-- Otis Redding

#Explanation

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

#Innocent #Explanation #Particular

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

#Struggle #Reason #Explanation

Parade your pallor in iniquity.
-- Pete Townshend

#Parades #Explanation

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
-- Pete Townshend

#Men #Machines #Explanation

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

#Born #Explanation

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
-- Rick Warren

#Comfort #Found #Explanation

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
-- Rita Dove

#Sometimes #Found #Explanation

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

#Reason #Logical #Explanation

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.
-- Robert Foster Bennett

#Stupidity #Trump #Explanation

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

#Explanation

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
-- Rumi

#Tongue #Explanation #Clear

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

#Ties #Mathematical #Explanation

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
-- Sammy Hagar

#Explanation #Looking Back

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.  I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
-- Saul Leiter

#Profound #Photograph #Explanation

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
-- Solange Knowles

#Giving #Decision #Explanation

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.
-- Sonny Barger

#Doe #Explanation

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
-- Tahir Shah

#Confusing #India #Explanation

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.
-- Takuan Soho

#Understanding #Achieve #Explanation

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
-- Todd Bridges

#Children #Needs #Explanation

Medication without explanation is obscene.
-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Health #Medication #Explanation

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

#Open Minded #Educator #Explanation

No excuses. No explanations.
-- Tony Dungy

#No Excuses #Excuse #Explanation

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

#Stores #Plans #Explanation

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
-- Vaclav Hlavaty

#Faith #Explanation #Ultimate

God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.
-- Warren W. Wiersbe

#People #Promise #Explanation

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
-- William of Ockham

#Equal #Explanation #Being Equal

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
-- William of Ockham

#Assumption #Explanation

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
-- William of Ockham

#Equal #Explanation #Simplest

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.
-- Dimitar Sasselov

#Natural #Social #Explanation

The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.
-- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

#Opponents #Today #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.
-- Josh Barro

#Dignity #Explanation #Cruz

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Able #Explanation #Humans

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

#Christ #Explanation