Explanation Quotations

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

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

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

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

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

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

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

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.

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.

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

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

God means movement, and not explanation.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

When I sing, people shut up.

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

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

God is the explanation of all things.

We live by promises not by explanations.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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

I've got more class than most.

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

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

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.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

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

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

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

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

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

Like a mountain that's growing.

Was he a doper or was he just a loser?

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

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

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

I have nothing intelligent to say.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

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

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

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

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

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

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

Words are useless, especially sentences.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

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

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Who then will explain the explanation?

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

Inside the silence is a melody.

I forgot to remember to forget.

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

I do loathe explanations.

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

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

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

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