Explanation Quotes

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

How can I possibly explain that I was just too afraid to love you how can I possibly explain that I still do?

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.

What can be explained is not poetry.

The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.