Quotes About Self Explanation

#1. When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

Honore De Balzac

#2. The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#3. Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

B.B. King

#4. Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Moist realized that there had to be an explanation for this, but the only one he could think of now was: It's strange.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

Joseph Conrad

#8. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Carl Sandburg

#9. We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

Walter Darby Bannard

#10. The only explanation that came to her was that gentlemen were obviously odd beings, and she should not even attempt to understand them.

Jen Turano

#11. What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

C.S. Lewis

#12. We work only with things that don't exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, units of time, units of space - how is explanation even possible if we begin by making everything into an image, our image! It

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Adalbert De Vogue

#14. Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.

L. Frank Baum

#15. No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.

Saul Bellow

#16. Doctors have come from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing They say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as they can see they can offer no explanation - NATALIE MERCHANT,

R.J. Palacio

#17. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.

Malcolm Lowry

#18. Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made. me!! ;)

Paulo Coelho

#19. I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note - "I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week," - and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.

Mercedes Lackey

#20. Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Alec Wilkinson

#21. I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

John Eccles

#22. There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Eben Alexander

#23. Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.

Ilchi Lee

#24. My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it?"
"Of course not," she agreed. "You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

Ilchi Lee

#26. Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Ali Vincent

#27. Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

Antonia Fraser

#28. The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#29. Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life ... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.

Robert E Lane

#30. To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation - it is self-evident.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#32. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

C.S. Lewis

#33. Mathematics is the art of explanation.

Paul Lockhart

#34. It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

Michael Korda

#35. Words are useless, especially sentences.

Madonna Ciccone

#36. For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Leo Tolstoy

#37. Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Mason Cooley

#38. The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.

Scott Adams

#39. Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

Raymond Geuss

#40. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#41. Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Langston Hughes

#42. There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

William J. Clinton

#43. Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

Robert Moss

#44. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

Otis Redding

#45. There's a Reasonable Explanation' is definitely a place you can go, a destination.

Deb Caletti

#46. We've got ego's like hairdos.

Ani DiFranco

#47. I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not.

Bill Condon

#48. Well, the only logical explanation is that all of my clothes shrunk!

Van Krishna

#49. A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

Matt Berninger

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

William Beveridge

#51. As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

George Bernard Shaw

#52. (..) she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby so I ripped the page from the book - "I don't speak. I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara (..)

Jonathan Safran Foer

#53. Even T.E. Lawrence, who hardly knew the meaning of fear, was by Sassoon's own account, terrified after only five minutes of his driving; 'my methods of turning from side roads into main roads were abrupt in those days' Sassoon added by way of explanation.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson

#54. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

Salle Merrill Redfield

#55. James Croll, the Scottish janitor and self-taught polymath whose theories concerning Earth's orbit provided the first plausible explanation for how ice ages might have started.

Bill Bryson

#56. Now, with the message sent, the words said, she wanted to call them back, to censor, to rearrange them, to make a prettier sentence, a fairer explanation of her soul.

Ray Bradbury

#57. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Harold Holzer

#58. You should know something, Miriam ... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

Ted Dekker

#59. I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.

Whitfield Diffie

#60. The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Vaclav Hlavaty