Explanation Quotes
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft




In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
William Robertson Smith




In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.




It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox




Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
Steven Pinker




My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.
James P. Moran




Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
Lafcadio Hearn




On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.




People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
Nancy Kerrigan




Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.
Robert Foster Bennett




Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai




The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen




The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.




The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.




The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
Stockwell Day




The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.
Eric Roberts




The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
Angelus Silesius




The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.




There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
Russell Crowe




There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.




There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.




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




Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.




What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin




What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.
Richard Russo







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