Explanation Quotes

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

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.

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

Inside the silence is a melody.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

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.

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

I've got more class than most.

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.

To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.

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.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

God means movement, and not explanation.

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.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].