Quotes about Explanations

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Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred Hellian.] 'With what? — Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking — Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
Philosophers console themselves with explanations. — Marty Rubin
No explanation is ever as good as not having one. — Marty Rubin
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend — Criss Jami, Healology
It's simpler to believe in a miracle. — William Golding, The Spire
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the ea — John Berger, Ways of Seeing
every single explanation that your brain concocts about a certain phenomenon on earth, is merely a virtual hunch of the — Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of conc — Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
It is better to be foolish than a dilettante. — Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so — Criss Jami, Killosophy
... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imagin — Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that. — Debasish Mridha
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. — Neil Gaiman
The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unf — Thomas Cathcart, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you. — Chris Geiger, Bad Cells
1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion — Matthew S. McCormick
Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try. — Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White