1.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Isaac Newton
Experience your life as an Exuberance rather than a Justification.
2.
Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.
Rosalind Franklin
Science, for me, provides an incomplete explanation for life. It is grounded in facts, experience and experimentation.
3.
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Johannes Kepler
4.
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
Saul Leiter
5.
The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.
Sonny Barger
6.
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William of Ockham
7.
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
William of Ockham
8.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
Hilton Kramer
9.
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
Maria Montessori
10.
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
Alec Guinness
12.
Sometimes
a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.
Rita Dove
13.
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
Federico Fellini
14.
Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
Solange Knowles
15.
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
William of Ockham
16.
Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.
Gunter Grass
17.
Inside the silence is a melody.
Joe Walsh
18.
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
Haruki Murakami
19.
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
Isabel Allende
20.
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
Rick Warren
21.
My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
Jethro Tull
23.
Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.
Lou Holtz
24.
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
Max Weber
25.
Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
Sammy Hagar
27.
To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.
Jeff Jarrett
28.
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
Isabel Allende
30.
He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.
Jethro Tull
31.
I've got more class than most.
Dr. Dre
32.
I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.
Dennis Rodman
35.
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Dennis Prager
36.
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz
38.
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
Jad Abumrad
39.
God means movement, and not explanation.
Elie Wiesel
40.
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
Brian Greene
41.
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
Stephen Hawking
42.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
Rumi
43.
I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
Janet Reno
44.
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
Dale Carnegie
45.
I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
Neil Diamond
47.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
48.
Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.
David Bowie
50.
There are alternate explanations for everything.
James Cook