Quotes About Explanation

Kobe beef is not named after Kobe Bryant. Do not make this mistake.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Blaming economic crises on "greed" is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn't crash if it wasn't for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about "greed," which is constant like gravity.

A more plausible explanation is that we are drawn to surprising news, and surprising news is more often bad than good.

I keep trying to find a way to tell this story, to explain how things went bad

Marxism allows us to understand the role of economic and social contradictions in driving the movement of history, but it often provides an inadequate explanation of the actual politics of historical transformation—why change does or does not occur at a given time. It is on this question that psychoanalysis proves indispensable.

The impulse to explain is the Achilles' heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.

THERE IS NO such thing as magic. That was merely the word people used to explain something so cleverly done that there was no ready explanation for it, and the simplest technique employed by its practitioners was to distract the audience with one moving and obvious hand (usually in a white glove) while the other was doing something else.

A young man in one's hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance.

Ich war so... erleichtert, dass du am Leben warst, dass ich mir eingeredet habe, für die Sache mit der Wunde würde es schon irgendeine logische Erklärung geben. Aber vorhin unter der Dusche, da ist mir plötzlich ein Licht aufgegangen." "Ah, das wird es sein. Ich habe noch nicht geduscht.

Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged.

Knave of hearts and bane to all women, be it known that you must win your tournament for me, otherwise I shall have a most difficult time explaining to my new lord my newest addition. -A letter to Stryder, from Rowena

Oh dear. I don't think I'm explaining this very well. I wish I could remember what Mother said when she told me—it made sense then." Light dawned. "You mean—the visitor? The little man who sweeps you out?" "What?" Shyly Norah told Flo what Aunt Florence had said. "No wonder you didn't understand! What a stupid way to tell you.

It is right to look for someone's "real" intentions after his ostensible intentions have been shown to be incompatible with the actual data of his situation and behaviour. But simply disregarding his explicit reasons so as to impose your own alternative explanation without giving him a fair hearing is not acceptable.

Cuando te explicas las cosas a psoteriori, exprimes toda clase de razones, pero luego sólo te bebes el zumo de las que te parecen menos amargas.

Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

Some rumors simultaneously relieve "a primary emotional urge" and offer an explanation, to those who accept them, of why they feel as they do; the rumor "rationalizes while it relieves.

Chaitin proved that physical laws alone, for example, could not explain chemistry or biology, because the laws of physics contain drastically less information than do chemical or biological phenomena.

One reason that religious prohibitions will probably never disappear is that we would deeply miss the glory we bestow upon ourselves for daring to violate the rules of an illustrious illusion we have imagined was an explanation of our existence.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.