Browsing Topic Best Explanation Quotes

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Never complain. Never explain.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You’ll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you’ve got to wake up and then you’ll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for living? To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and what not to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I don’t think God is an explanation at all. It’s simply redescribing the problem.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

The majority of people don’t want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That’s the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life… They are the backbone of a community–solid, trust-worthy, essential.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one’s emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications – in order to hide one’s motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one’s cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!

Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn’t know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That’s the advantage of religion. You’re never short an explanation for anything.)

I’d lie for you and that’s the truth.

Hillary’s explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn’t a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn’t need one.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

The question whether atoms exist or not… belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena… whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena… I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.