Quotes About Explanations

Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

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

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

a few explanations, to enable him with thorough understanding to judge of my manner of viewing the subject.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Presumably, those overhearing half a conversation were strongly compelled to try to infer the missing half in a way that made for a complete narrative. As the authors point out, the study may help explain why we find one-sided cell phone conversations in public spaces so intrusive, but it also reveals the ineluctable way we are drawn to imbue the events around us with rational explanations.

These ancient writers had an adequate understanding of God for them in their time, but not for all time—and if we take that to heart, we will actually be in a better position to respect these ancient voices and see what they have to say rather than whitewashing the details and making up "explanations" to ease our stress.

pervasive sense of crisis that fostered support for extremist positions and simplifying explanations.