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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. -- Maurice de Vlaminck
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. -- Ansel Adams
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -- Mark Twain
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. -- Harold S. Geneen
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' -- Joey Adams
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary. -- Britney Spears
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. -- Geronimo
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. -- Douglas Adams
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. -- Charles Ives
I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world. -- Harold Ramis
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker. -- Brian Selznick
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. -- Thomas Sowell
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. -- Jane Goodall
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. -- Rene Descartes
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. -- Emile Durkheim
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution. -- Stephen Hawking
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. -- Charlie Chaplin
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. -- Richard Dawkins
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. -- Quentin Crisp
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip. -- Hanna Rosin
I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. -- Brad Pitt
God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. -- Henry B. Eyring
If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.' -- Christine Woods
One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood. -- Desmond Dekker
Anything seems commonplace, once explained. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Shut up,' he explained. -- Ring Lardner
No one ever explained the octopuses. -- Gail Carriger
History is all explained by geography. -- Robert Penn Warren
I explained it when I danced it. -- Margot Fonteyn
What can be explained is not poetry. -- William Butler Yeats
My dad never explained anything growing up. -- Tom Douglas
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. -- Abraham Lincoln
The brain has not explained the mind fully. -- Wilder Penfield
Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. -- Wendell Berry
Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived. -- Anne Hebert
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all. -- Elif Safak
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen. -- Heinz von Foerster
Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious? -- Ian Mcewan
If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained. -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature. -- May Sarton
Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. -- Nella Larsen
God cannot be explained... God can only be lived. -- Meher Baba
A work of art doesn't have to be explained, -- Louise Bourgeois
Love is just love, it can never be explained. -- James Earl Jones
The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. -- Robbie Coltrane
There are many things in life that cannot be explained. -- Anthony Horowitz
I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained. -- Harold Town
The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. -- Robbie Coltrane
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people. -- Rachel Cusk
Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics. -- Paul Dirac
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained. -- Shane Koyczan
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. -- Agatha Christie
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. -- Linus Pauling
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better. -- Johan Cruijff
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. -- Joseph Joubert
music explained what inside of me;that is why i loved my Job -- anne idris
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself. -- Albert Einstein
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. -- Peter Kreeft
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained. -- Moshe Kupferman
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. -- Julian Barnes
If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish. -- Richard Branson
The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. -- Thomas Jefferson
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. -- Charles Bowden
I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team. -- Derrick Rose
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. -- Theodore Dreiser
If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them. -- Bill Watterson
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. -- Harold S. Geneen
Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained. -- J. William Schopf
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim. -- Aristotle
If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better ~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. -- Max Jacob
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. -- Dick Gregory
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. -- Michael Hastings
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained. -- Georges Braque
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. -- Ernest Rutherford
If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out. -- Patricia Churchland
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air. -- James M. Barrie
If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless. -- Albert Einstein
The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. -- Robert Breault
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? -- E. B. White
There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. -- Arthur Cayley
There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away. -- Anthony Horowitz
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. -- Iris Murdoch
We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united. -- E. Lockhart
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. -- Frantz Fanon
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. -- Stefan Kanfer
There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. -- Warren Buffett
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist. -- Ernest Hemingway
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. -- Paulo Coelho
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man. -- Henri Nouwen
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained. -- William Penn
No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. -- Leigh Hunt
I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God! -- David Platt
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. -- Woodrow Wilson
Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same. -- Simon Van Booy
I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist. -- Stephenie Meyer
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy. -- P. J. Plauger
One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry. -- Dorothy Sarnoff
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans. -- Frank Luntz
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. -- Harold S. Kushner
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication. -- Della Reese
Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her? -- Mort Sahl
Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown. -- Larry Wilmore
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. -- Charlie Chaplin

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