Quotes About Explanation

I am not admitting to anything, i am just telling you.

Why is it so hard to explain the basis of state authority? The most likely reason is that there is no explanation for political authority, because political authority is a fiction.

Our minds have an amazing ability to create a narrative that explains the world around us, an ability that works particularly well when we already know the answer.

The purpose of music theory is to both explain why something sounded the way it did, and how that sound can be made again.

As Ronald Spiers, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Pakistan, has said, the "Robotic repetition of 'because they hate freedom' does not do as an explanation.

There is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal. There is only the natural, the normal, and mysteries we have yet to explain.

Lacking a good explanation, the mind defaults to whatever explanation is on the table, regardless of how improbable it may be.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one's place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job.

The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

Leggermente a disagio per questa confessione, Jean-Yves si voltò verso di me: "E tu, Michel, cosa conti di fare qui?". La risposta più vicina alla realtà era sicuramente qualcosa sul genere: "Niente", ma è sempre un po' difficile spiegare questo tipo di cose alle persone attive.

Se non la capisci tu che fai la filosofa, stiamo messi bene. E di che colore è la filosofia?» «È nera, come la notte di Schelling, una notte senza fine in cui tutte le vacche sono nere. Perché ci sono delle cose che la ragione non può nemmeno sfiorare. Perché nella vita ci sono dei dolori che non possono essere spiegati. .»

You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-" "Do i make you nervous?" "No. I'm not nervous." "You're trembling." "I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes." His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.

memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

In discarding a literal religious explanation, it becomes easy to discredit the hard-won wisdom often bundled up with it.

This would provide a fitting message, answer and explanation for the busybodies of America who currently are wallowing in indignation, their favorite puddle.

I explained about how we were in Rick's hands and also how he had washed his hands.

Her mother was explaining, calmly and without apparent apology, that the vessel we'd been sailing twenty-one years ago had capsized and that she'd claimed the only seat on the lifeboat.

Faites connaître vos décisions, jamais vos raisons. Vos décisions peuvent être bonnes, vos raisons seront certainement mauvaises.

A beautiful message without explanation is like a long journey without a precise destination.

Some people can't focus on the present moment for a great reason that they can't explain to anyone else.

There are things in nature which engender an awful quiet in the heart of man; Devils Tower is one of them. Man must account for it. He must never fail to explain such a thing to himself, or else he is estranged forever from the universe.