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Explanation Quotes - Page 3

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Song: My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died, Album: Words and Music

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Said to William O. Chessman on March 27, 1936. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1546, Best Books on

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Toni Cade Bambara (1982). “The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Stories”, Vintage

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

William Least Heat-Moon (2014). “PrairyErth: A Deep Map”, p.450, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt