Explanation Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
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I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving, when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason. I don't know. I have no other explanation.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
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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.
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Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
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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.
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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.
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God is the explanation of all things.
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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.
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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
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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.
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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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.
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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.
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If I had an explanation, I'd give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end. They did everything right, and we couldn't do anything right.
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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?
