Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least…

“The brains that we were born with had learned that snakes are dangerous and flowers are not.”

— Ray Dalio

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring…

— Alison Gopnik

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,

— Alison Gopnik

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young…

— Alison Gopnik

I don't owe any explanations for anybody I'm fighting.

— Andre Ward

“Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.”

— James Rozoff

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

— Olavo de Carvalho

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing.…

— Will Rogers

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory…

— David Stove

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

— Rick Warren

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

— Peter Weir

“Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah," he exploded.”

— Andrew Ashling

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find…

— Eckhart Tolle

“You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.”

— Luigina Sgarro