Explanation Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Hector Hugh Munro

Good luck needs no explanation.

Shirley Temple

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

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

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

C.S. Lewis

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

William Buechner

If wishes were horses, there would be an easy explanation for all this horseshit

Dave Barry

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance

Bible

When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other

Mitchell Ulmann

And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, But, like a hawk encumbered with his hood, Explaining metaphysics to the nationˆ I wished he would explain his explanation.

Rochdale

It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.

Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Martin H. Fischer