Explanation Quotes
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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I hate getting off the elevator on the wrong floor? Anyone ever do that... and then you have to turn around and face those people. I feel like I owe everyone in there an explanation.
Brian Regan
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Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.
Lou Holtz
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Who then will explain the explanation?
Lord Byron
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What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.
Barnett Newman
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William of Occam
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
Albert Bandura
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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.
Lewis H. Lapham
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Lewis Trogdon
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He who believes needs no explanation.
Euripides
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
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God is the explanation of all things.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz
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So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
Ted Dekker
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One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.
Njabulo S Ndebele
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Erykah Badu
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
D.T. Max
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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
William of Occam
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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Beveridge
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll
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Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Rabbi Hillel