Quotes About Explanation

detrás de otras, retrocediendo hasta el fondo de la habitación. —El rey quiere reservarse las joyas y el dinero que le queda —explicó el consejero, sorbiendo la nariz—.

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age it is much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others who come after you

Maybe the only way I can explain is to say that the old statesman Edmund Burke was wrong. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to go into politics.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Arlo!" Andrea shouted. "Why did you do that?

While Smith tried to explain how the records of two Hebrew prophets came into the possession of an Egyptian royal family, he left unexplained why, after being handed down for several generations, they should be buried with mummies.

The more you explain bad events as temporary, specific, and external, the more likely you are to persist even in the face of adversity.

The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance. No story of Google's unlikely success will meet that test, because no story can include the myriad of events that would have caused a different outcome. The human mind does not deal well with nonevents.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

That's one explanation," I said. "But another is that you've hidden yourself from him so deliberately and for so long that he needs some time to take in this new part of the picture. He kissed you in the parking lot, poured his heart out to you, and you've avoided him ever since. And now he gets this letter. That is a lot to absorb.

I loved you with the scientific excuse of the lonely.

Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas.

Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: "You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. . . . If you see through everything, then everything is transparent.  But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world.  To see through all things is the same as not to see." 

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

the Quantity Theory resembles various general theories of value (many versions of the doctrine of supply and demand, for example), which have not attempted to explain price as such but have been content to establish a law of price-variations.1