Explanation Quotes
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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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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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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William of Occam
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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 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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He who believes needs no explanation.
Euripides
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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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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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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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
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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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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
D.T. Max
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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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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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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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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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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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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
Oscar Wilde
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll