Explanation Quotes
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
Adolf Hitler
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
Neil Diamond
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Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
William of Occam
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
Václav Hlavatý
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The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
Anouk Aimee
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Johannes Kepler
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When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Samuel Witwer
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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
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
William of Occam
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People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.
Hedi Slimane
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Go with your gut. Sometimes things defy explanation - and who knows where it will lead?
Cathy Hopkins
