Explanation Quotes
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world




The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.




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.




The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
Charles Fort




Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.
Henry Margenau




When there is no explanation, then give it a name, which immediately explains everything




Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature -- unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Henry Beveridge




Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.




But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.




The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.




A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Hector Hugh Munro




And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?
Julio Cortazar




I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.
Richard Jewell




The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
William Buechner




I wish he would explain his explanation




The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation




No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.




A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.
C. E. Ayres




A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. Munro




The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation
Hilton Kramer




With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.




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




The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
Benjamin Haydon




Its art if cant be explained. Its fashion if no one asks for an explanation. Its design if it doesnt need explanation
Wouter Stokkel




Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.







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