Self Explanatory Quotes

#1. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Carlos Castaneda

#2. If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Kissing her just then felt perfectly normal and completely self-explanatory, the only possible course of action.

Tom Perrotta

#4. If you can't make something self-evident, you at least need to make it self-explanatory.

Steve Krug

#5. Family comes first is indeed a powerful principle, but so is the imperative for your own development. It is not a self-explanatory or self-applying principle, and it can collide with other principles.

Edward Rocklin

#6. If anyone names me after a gemstone, I'm going to find out how well my new teeth work on them. I saw that movie too. I think I'll stick with Dragon. At least it sounds badass and it's self-explanatory." - Jill Hammond

Thomas Cardin

#7. We've fooled around. I guess he's kind of a fuck buddy."
"Fuck buddy?"
"Oh, you don't know that term? Well, it's a friend-"
"You don't have to explain. It's vividly self-explanatory.

Marshall Thornton

#8. The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory.

Rebecca Goldstein

#9. If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

Robert Breault

#10. I'm a real bastard without him," Jace apologized, and Nick
gulped some water and nodded.
"Yeah, I hear that. Why?"
Jace looked at him in outrage because the question was ... was
self-explanatory. "Because! Because he's ... he's Quent!

Amy Lane

#11. I have found out all I need to know, it's pretty self explanatory. You wanted a laugh; trick two girls into thinking you liked them. Bravo, you succeeded. Now go have a celebratory drink with your frat buddies, I said, spitting rain out at him with each word I spoke.

Nicole Gulla

#12. I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.

Stephanie Dowrick

#13. A punishment is not self-explanatory. It serves no purpose until the person serving it knows the real reason for being punished.

Amit Pandey

#14. Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

J. Martin Klotsche

#15. What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Paul Mooney

#16. Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation - at least in the foreign policy world - depend on context and relevance.

Henry Kissinger

#17. LYB NBC - which means "love ya, babe; nuts, back & critters" - the first half being pretty self-explanatory. Less obviously, "nuts, back, and critters" means watch out for crazy people, watch your back because you can't trust anyone, and don't run over any animals.

Tyler Oakley

#18. Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.

Steve Krug

#19. It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.

Chase Utley

#20. My songs are self-explanatory ... somebody pointed out to me that ... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

Christine McVie

#21. The Art of War is self-explanatory

Sun Tzu

#22. When I caught up, I grabbed Jack's arm. "What are you
doing here?" "Hiding! That's how you play the game, right? I thought
the title hide-and-seek was fairly self-explanatory. Then
again, you are blond." "So are you, idiot. Again, what are you doing here?

Kiersten White

#23. I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

Siegfried Woldhek

#24. Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.

Jonathan Hull

#25. Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

Martin Seligman

#26. The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

Leland Ryken

#27. Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.

Pearl Zhu

#28. What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.

Hilary Kornblith

#29. We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

Mark Twain

#30. The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

Nancy Cartwright

#31. Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

Samuel Fuller

#32. One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

Agatha Christie

#33. Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Brian Greene

#34. What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

Benjamin Carson

#35. God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty.

David Bentley Hart

#36. The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.

David McRaney

#37. There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

Gregory Bateson

#38. The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

Daniel Gilbert

#39. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln

#40. Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Martin Seligman

#41. My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

Maurice Allais

#42. Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

Robert Hass

#43. I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#44. The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all.

Rebecca Solnit

#45. naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.

David Bentley Hart

#46. If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds.

Noam Chomsky

#47. Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

Norman Macbeth

#48. [Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

Peter Atkins

#49. But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.

David Bentley Hart

#50. But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.

David Stove

#51. We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

Ian Hacking

#52. mechanical reinterpretations of human affairs not only lack explanatory power, they are morally wrong as well, for in effect they deny the humanity of the participants, casting them and their ideas merely as side effects of the landscape. Diamond

David Deutsch

#53. Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

Gilbert Ryle

#54. The head spins in theoretical disarray; no explanatory model suggests itself; bizarre ontologies loom. There is a feeling of intense confusion, but no clear idea about where the confusion lies.

Colin McGinn

#55. It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

Ernest Nagel

#56. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen.

Daniel Kahneman

#57. Revenge of the Giant Grill Man.

Joan Bauer

#58. EXPLANATORY NOTES A NOTE ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF OLIVER TWIST

Charles Dickens

#59. Programming is an explanatory activity.

Roman Harper