Quotes of: Explaining Keyword

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Jerome Bruner

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing

The Human Script

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Mindplayers

Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

The Sweetest Thing

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Them

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

Paul Graham

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

Peter Mandelson

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Rhys Bezzant

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Richard Dawkins

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Richard Dawkins

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

Sarah West

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

Kobe Bryant

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

Khloe Kardashian

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

Kyle MacLachlan

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

Martin Bashir

The scientists must be crazy themselves if they think they can explain this crazy world.

Marty Rubin