Quotes About Explanation

Three things, then. Escape, and finding work, and then explaining himself adequately. It was just those areas he had trouble with. Everything else, he was all right about.

Rorschach: You know we can't let you do that Adrian Veidt: Do? Do what Rorschach? I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.

Often in business we take decisions based on how we interpret the situation, not being sure of whether the call we have taken will work or not. When it works, we are often taken by surprise. But the world at large demands an explanation.

Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

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

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

Alors pourquoi tu m'a embrassé ? demande-t-il. -Si je t'ai embrassé, c'est justement parce que je ne t'aimes pas, je lui explique, comme si ça tombait sous le sens.

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.

One man's affirmation of the consecuent is another's man inference to the best explanation (Psychosemantics, pp. 149)

The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.

There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those straits, and what cannot be explained will be left unknown.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

I was on my way to work the other day, and I guess I got too close to someone's car, because the alarm started going off. I didn't want them to come back and be confused as to why it was going off, so I threw a brick through the windshield. I figured that would explain it.

the most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.

Don't ever fool yourself that facts don't fit, if you get the right explanation. They're just like jigsaw puzzles—when you get them right, they're all going to fit together.

I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to; we never did such things.

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.