Explanation Quotes - Page 10

• Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Permit

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “Your Right to Be Rich”, p.108, Jaico Publishing House

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Talking, Needed, Feels

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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

  Vaclav Hlavaty

  Faith, Left, Ultimate

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• Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Desire, Want, Firsts

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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• As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Winter, Clouds

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  Home, House, World

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Grief, Flames, Hands

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• I don't need any explanation about what you do with your life. You and I...we grew up together,and that's it. Yeah, we shared a lot of stuff back then, and we were there for each other when it mattered. But neither one of us can fit into the clothes we used to wear , and this relationship between us is just the same. It doesn't fit in our lives any longer. We don't...fit anymore. And listen., I didn't mean to get pissy in the truck, but I think you need to be clear on this. You and I? We have a past. That's it. That's ...all we'll ever have" (Blay to Qhuinn).

  J.R. Ward

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• He who believes needs no explanation.

  Euripides

  Believe, Needs

  Euripides (2002). “Bacchai”, Oberon Books

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• Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Morning, Relief, Found

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Hands, Hot

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.283, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

  Linda Evangelista

  Beautiful, Teacher, Teaching

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• Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their relationship would take a lot of hard work and dedication. But it had simply happened. No explanation. No cataclysmic event or earth-shattering revelation brought on by some external event. It had simply happened.

  Maya Banks

  Hard Work, Dedication, Doubt

  Maya Banks (2013). “Forged in Steele”, Penguin

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• Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

  Susan Cain

  Block, Stupid, Ideas

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

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• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  David Perkins

  Teaching, Learning, Vocabulary

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he’d ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father’s killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh’s head and I could sing “Kumbaya” together by the fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crush, Father, Sadness

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• ...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Atheist, Believe, Answers

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• Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.

  Ilchi Lee

  Moving, Truth Is, Process

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from May 28, 2014

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• For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Time, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Devil, Pants

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• He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Watches, Void

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• By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Law, Demand

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• The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Ignorance, Sacrifice

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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• Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Race, Understanding, Humanity

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• [The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of empirical science constantly renews itself. We may go on forever, proceeding to explanations of a higher and higher universality.

  Karl Popper

  Taken, Science, Law

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