Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that…

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

— Andy Rooney

“I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or…

— Karen Hawkins

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

— Robert McAfee Brown

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.

— John Barnes

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

— John Barnes

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'…

— A. N. Wilson

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

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

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