Quotation Explorer - 'Explained'

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. - Chuck Palahniuk
Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential. - Vishwas Chavan
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God. - Chuck Palahniuk
(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall transfer my benevolence to them. - Ron Chernow
Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science. - Linda Westphal
In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it. - Sara Sheridan
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
Shut up he explained. - Ring Lardner
For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration. - Joseph Epstein
If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better ~ Aarush Kashyap - Kirtida Gautam
The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake - Laurell K. Hamilton
I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. - Ernest Hemingway
The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained. - Frank Watson Dyson
What happens," called out Max, "if you win?""We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained - Philip Palmer
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Robert J. Hanlon
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. - C. JoyBell C.
I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing. - César Aira
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. - Arthur Cayley
Maybe it’s time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can’t be explained. - Jennifer Ott
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. - Charlie Chaplin
I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings. - F. Sionil Jose'
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us. - Joris-Karl Huysmans
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown
A joke explained is a joke wasted.
Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done! - Praveen Chenna
What can be explained is not poetry. - W.B. Yeats
There's nothing in this universe that can't be explained, eventually. - House M.D.
It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful. - Richard Flanagan
Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced.Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all. - Elif Shafak
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. - Leo Tolstoy
Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained. - G.K. Chesterton
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. - Francis Maitland Balfour
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. - Martin Luther King Jr.
music explained what inside of me;that is why i loved my Job - anne idris
i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods. - Hanimoz Obey
A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion. - Zack W. Van
Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here. - Randall Munroe
The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal. - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
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