Explanation Quotes

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.