Quotes About Explanation

But if you feel that the criticism is made out of sheer malice and that no amount of explanation will change a point of view which has nothing to do with the facts, then the best thing is to put it out of your mind entirely, as though it did not touch you or your loved ones in any way.

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.

My daughter is a girl," Fernando explained, embarrassed.

Trying to explain all the steps was boring and exhausting. I kept imagining Ivan getting bored, or not believing me, and it kept sounding like I was putting the blame on other people, like Svetlana and her mom. When I tried to put the blame on myself, it was also tedious and boring, and in the end I gave up trying to explain anything.

I felt dissatisfied, as if I was failing to capitalize on some advantage I had from "being" Turkish—one that would compensate for the hassle of having a name and appearance that had always required explanation. It had, I realized, been a real disappointment to get to Turkey and to discover that my name and appearance still required constant explanation

But I had never doubted that, when I got back to school, I would find an email from him, explaining everything. It was not, after all, conceivable that there was no explanation, or that the explanation could come from anyone else, or that it could come in any way other than email, since that was how everything had always happened between us.

It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes.

The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.

Even a self-centric can say at the end of the day that s/he owes no explanation to anyone and has no regrets for own work, so the righteous way at every night is only to do introspection for correction.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.

in the process gently reminding the scientific community that it has a bad habit of dismissing what it can't explain instead of evolving better theories.

Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

For a long time, the paranormal was a legitimate area of explanation for quite a lot of people.

I don't have an editor on Twitter. I have an editor in the paper, and so I tend to be less precise in 140 characters and sometimes I leave people confused as to my meaning. And then I make the mistake of engaging and trying to explain it, which just leads you down a rabbit hole.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've become obsessed with trying to find instances of racism to explain it.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

I had a good time at Chelsea and was accepted in the team, so it's difficult to explain why I left. My performances were good as well, but there was a time in my second season when I felt I didn't have the manager's trust any more and I didn't play many matches from the start.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

First principle: any explanation is better than none. Because it is at bottom only a question of wanting to get rid of oppressive ideas, one is not exactly particular about what means one uses to get rid of them: the first idea which explains that the unknown is in fact the known does so much good that one 'holds it for true'. Proof by pleasure ('by potency') as criterion of truth.