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“I’m not very good at giving people orderly explanations of things.”

— Haruki Murakami

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Having words and explanations for things is too modern”

— E. L. Konigsburg

“Fantasy, though, is a literature of things beyond explanation. It calls us back to childhood, either the childhood of our species, before we knew…

— Roger Bellini

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

— William of Ockham

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis

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