Explanation Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. (Saki)
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. View quote
George Eliot
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. View quote
C. S. Lewis
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. View quote
Wallace Stevens
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. View quote
Salman Rushdie
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it. View quote
Ronald Knox
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. View quote
Franz Werfel
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. (Eben Alexander)
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. View quote
Anaïs Nin
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. View quote
Solange Knowles
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator. View quote
Henry M. Morris
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. View quote
Elie Ducommun
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. View quote
Charles Darwin
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. ... what has no meaning admits no explanation. (Thomas Jefferson)
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. View quote
Albert Abraham Michelson
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what! View quote
Maxfield Parrish
I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future. View quote
James Frey
No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates. View quote
Rajneesh