Explanation Quotes
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll
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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
Neil Diamond
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
Gaston Bachelard
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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.
Sebastian Stan
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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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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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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
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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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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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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