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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Explanations are such cheap poetry. -- Stephen King
Explanations are a substitute for trust. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things. -- Mason Cooley
Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less. -- Rick Warren
Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly, -- Chris Colfer
Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen. -- John Rogers Searle
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the PhÃ¦nomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. -- Isaac Newton
Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless. -- Seth Godin
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. -- Gertrude Stein
So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that could only destroy the films "reality". -- Haruki Murakami
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing. -- Steven Pinker
There are no explanations, there are no answers. -- Jessica Lange
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. -- Milan Kundera
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. -- Dennis Prager
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. -- Erykah Badu
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. -- Paulo Coelho
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. -- Julia Child
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. -- Tony Campolo
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. -- Harold S. Geneen
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. -- Pat Riley
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics. -- Stephen Hawking
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. -- Rumi
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories. -- Jane Yolen
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. -- Alison Gopnik
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. -- Orson Scott Card
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything. -- Richard Rohr
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced. -- Seth Shostak
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. -- Carl Jung
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. -- Jared Diamond
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. -- Bill Gates
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. -- Julia Child
I do loathe explanations. -- James M. Barrie
No excuses. No explanations. -- Tony Dungy
Establish enigmas, not explanations. -- Robert Smithson
There are alternate explanations for everything. -- James Cook
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. -- Todd Bridges
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. -- Abraham Lincoln
We live by promises not by explanations. -- Adrian Rogers
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. -- C. S. Lewis
Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations. -- Mason Cooley
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. -- Napoleon Hill
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one. -- Alec Guinness
I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin. -- Errol Morris
When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct. -- Dan Brown
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. -- Agatha Christie
Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped. -- Gunter Grass
Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them. -- Mick Jagger
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. -- Robert Breault
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. -- Baltasar Gracian
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. -- Lewis Carroll
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. -- Roland Barthes
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Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? -- Allison Pearson
If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. -- J.R. Ward
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Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. -- Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones. -- William of Ockham
It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on. -- Paulo Coelho
God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. -- Olavo De Carvalho
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. -- Paul Lockhart
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price -- Robert A. Heinlein
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. -- Paulo Coelho
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine. -- Virginia Woolf
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything. -- Patricia Briggs
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. -- Carl Sagan
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. -- Stephen Hawking
Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified. -- Tariq Ramadan
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. -- Archibald MacLeish
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. -- Carl Sandburg
I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations. -- Aaron Burr
Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest. -- Amy Carmichael
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. -- Neil Gaiman
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. -- David Deutsch
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests." -- David Deutsch
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. -- Paul David Tripp
Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. -- William of Ockham
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. -- Ishmael Beah
Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on. -- Paulo Coelho
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. -- Kary Mullis
Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of. -- Tedd Tripp
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering. -- Tullian Tchividjian
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. -- Frank Herbert
Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations. -- Julio Olalla
We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty. -- Simon Sinek
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end -- Isaac Mayer Wise
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. -- Peter Medawar
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe. -- Peter Dicken
Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary. -- E. L. Konigsburg
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. -- Michael Behe
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies. -- Elena Ferrante
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. -- Charles Schumer
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. -- Stephen King
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. -- Charles Schumer
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. -- David Deutsch
We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding. -- Andy Andrews
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. -- Robert Zoellick
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them." -- David Deutsch
Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them. -- David Deutsch
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. -- Eric Russell
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. -- William Least Heat-Moon
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. -- John Shelby Spong
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries. -- Peter Weir
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality -- Harold Geneen
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -- Fred Brooks
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. -- Guy Debord
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything. -- E. F. Schumacher

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