When It Matters The Most, Don't Give Explanations; Just…

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

— Neil Gaiman

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

— Leo Buscaglia

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

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

“Now, why is it that the idea of intention keeps turning up in explanations of adaptation, intruding even into ones where it is supposed…

— David C. Stove

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

“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

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

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