94 Explanation Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything. Samuel Witwer

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Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity. Peter Bergen

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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei

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I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation. B. R. Ambedkar

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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco

Astonishment Only Which Explanation Us Separates Incomprehensible Gateway

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life. Meat Loaf

Life Success Out Just Explanation

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. Paulo Coelho

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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir

Man World Adequate Seemed None Always Been Offered Explanation Reasons

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. Solange Knowles

God Myself Decision Give Only Make Person Any Explanation Based

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self. John Eccles

Me Evolution Darwinian Self Had Came Experiencing Realise Explanation

Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location. Adrian McKinty

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Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation. Alafair Burke

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In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure. Alastair Reynolds

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I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. Alice Sebold

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Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. Arthur Keith

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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy. Ben Lovett

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