Simple explanations are usually the wisest ones - a person…

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do…

— John Bradshaw

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

— Mick Jagger

There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the things you…

— Lisa Randall

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

— Stephen Hawking

“we seek what we think are simple explanations for events in our lives because we believe the simpler something is, the more fundamental—the more…

— Ed Catmull

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