Explanation Quotes

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

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

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

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

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

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.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

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

I've got more class than most.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

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

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

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

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.