Don't waste your time with explanations. People will only…

“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

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

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

— Andrew Ashling

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

“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

— Rick Warren

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

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

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

— Olavo de Carvalho

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

— James Rozoff

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

— Andre Ward

“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

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

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

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they…

— Norman Macbeth