Explanation Quotes
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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 -
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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He who believes needs no explanation.
Euripides -
These facts shaw that mitosis is due to the co-ordinate play of an extremely complex system of forces which are as yet scarcely comprehended. Its purpose is, however, as obvious as its physiological explanation is difficult. It is the end of mitosis to divide every part of the chromatin of the mother-cell equally between the daughter-nuclei. All the other operations are tributary to this. We may therefore regard the mitotic figure as essentially an apparatus for the distribution of the hereditary substance, and in this sense as the especial instrument of inheritance.
Edmund Beecher Wilson -
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
William of Occam -
Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.
Mike McCurry -
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
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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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz -
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 -
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin -
Who then will explain the explanation?
Lord Byron -
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 -
Slowly but surely I became resigned to the fact that, for some alternative medicine zealots, no amount of explanation would ever suffice. To them, alternative medicine seemed to have mutated into a religion, a cult whose central creed must be defended at all costs against the infidel.
Edzard Ernst
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When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.
Bob Benson -
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Beveridge -
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
Albert Bandura -
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
D.T. Max -
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Erykah Badu -
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.
Tim Ferriss
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Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
Francis Chan -
I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
Alvaro Enrigue -
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 -
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
Virginia Woolf