To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Votes: 4
Thomas AquinasDo not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Votes: 4
Anais NinExplanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Votes: 3
Eugene IonescoEvolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. Votes: 2
Steven PinkerNever explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Votes: 2
Elbert HubbardModernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what! Votes: 0
Maxfield ParrishBecause it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. Votes: 0
George Leigh MalloryFact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. Votes: 0
Marilynne RobinsonThe explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. Votes: 0
William of OckhamOnce miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. Votes: 0
Johannes KeplerJust because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EngleVery simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! Votes: 0
H. G. WellsYour explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. Votes: 0
Langston HughesThere are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you. Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonWe must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardIf one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany. Votes: 0
Criss JamiStupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. Votes: 0
Robert Foster BennettCharacter formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. Votes: 0
Maria MontessoriScientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. Votes: 0
Neil deGrasse TysonTo ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. Votes: 0
Maurice Merleau-PontyGod expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. Votes: 0
Oswald ChambersIn his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Votes: 0
Louise WilderAnyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me. Votes: 0
Jo-Wilfried TsongaWe must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinWith all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. Votes: 0
William of OckhamAs a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. Votes: 0
D. T. MaxI don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsIt is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism) Votes: 0
Woodrow WilsonThe best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers. Votes: 0
Torbjorn TannsjoIf you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. Votes: 0
Lou HoltzDoes somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceA psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct. Votes: 0
James RachelsThere is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoHe who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Votes: 0
Jean-Luc GodardWar is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula Votes: 0
George S. PattonAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation. Votes: 0
Gaston BachelardThere seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonI believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultMost intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. Votes: 0
Steven PinkerA black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate. Votes: 0
Shelby SteeleIf you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiThe explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. Votes: 0
HoraceAs a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisBut myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Votes: 0
Paul RicoeurA Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. Votes: 0
Maurice BejartSociety soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. Votes: 0
Edith WhartonCome morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation. Votes: 0
Mark Z. DanielewskiThat is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity. Votes: 0
Victor HugoThe fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. Votes: 0
Charles FortWe inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small. Votes: 0
Marilynne RobinsonBeauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeItâd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow Votes: 0
Diane DuaneShe was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. Votes: 0
Kate MortonWhat most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. Votes: 0
James Q. WilsonThe longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeThe fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantTitus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. Votes: 0
Pete GillIt is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. Votes: 0
Hazrat Inayat KhanWhat can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? Votes: 0
William GodwinAnd Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeListen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we? Votes: 0
Dennis MillerTo trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? Votes: 0
Robert BreaultWhen I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right. Votes: 0
Federico FelliniTo him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible. Votes: 0
Ram DassThe farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. Votes: 0
Vaclav HlavatyAny decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. Votes: 0
Solange KnowlesEverything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. Votes: 0
AnaxagorasDemocracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication. Votes: 3 Dick Gephardt
If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable. Votes: 3 David Javerbaum
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once. Votes: 1 Pico Iyer
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything. Votes: 3 Richard Rohr
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? Votes: 1 William Godwin
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries. Votes: 1 Peter Weir
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. Votes: 1 Dennis Prager
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Votes: 4 Thomas Aquinas
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation. Votes: 1 Denise Mina
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success. Votes: 1 Robin Marantz Henig
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. Votes: 3 Paulo Coelho
What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me. Votes: 1 Claire Denis