Unexplained Quotes

• Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

  Kirk Hammett

  Misunderstood, Sides, Kind

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Important, Matter, Clarity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

  Anna Freud

  Papa, Fixed, Psychoanalytic

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• We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

  Paul Davies

  Law, World, Accepted

  "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Feelings, Scientific Method

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• The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Politics, Projects

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.301

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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• Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Love, Peace, Absence

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• You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

  Radclyffe Hall

  Loneliness, People, Mad

  Title of book (1928)

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• Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

  Twiggy

  Communication, Confusion, Form

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• As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

  Michael Behe

  Numbers, Increase, Criteria

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Data, Mind

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

  David Mamet

  Ideas, Matter, Spirit

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Pain, Taken

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.

  Jacques Vallee

  Stupid, Teaching, Moon

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• We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

  Josh Gates

  Keys, Stories, Bears

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• The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

  Zayn Malik

  Sadness, Giving, Reason

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• As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Long

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• There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

  Jasper Fforde

  Confused, Thinking, Albums

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

  Charles Fort

  Lying, Data, Mad

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

  Spike Jonze

  Scary, Emotion, Bigs

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• Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

  Rumi

  Tongue, Clear, Explanation

  Rumi “Masnavi”, Lulu.com

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• Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
  Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
  We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

  Simon Van Booy

  Queens, Kings, Mean

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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• In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing to understand the context of the passage....assuming a partial report is a false report...neglecting to interpret difficult passages in light of clear ones; basing a teaching on an obscure passage; forgetting that the Bible uses nontechnical, everyday language; failing to remember the Bible uses different literary devices.

  Norman Geisler

  Bible, Teaching, Light

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• Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mind, Needs, Hook

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