Philosophy Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.”

— Diane Setterfield

“The man of principle never forgets what he is, because of what others are.”

— Bohdi Sanders

“Beware of men with theories that explain everything.”

— Mark Bowden

“Everything has an explanation, but not everything needs to be explained.”

— Erin Mack

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

— Sir Isaac Newton

“But men can forget. If too much time goes by, they can forget what they have. How much they want what they have.”

— Laura Dave

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.…

— Alice Hoffman

“Human beings always want explanations. They have to know everything about everything and they have to know it immediately.”

— Steven Cooper

“Wouldn't you know it. I bring a man to life and forget all about including a brain that will make sense of any damn…

— Zana Fraillon

“Some things a man simply cannot do.”

— Emily Rodda

“Open your mind to what I shall explain, then close around it, for it is no learning to understand what one does not retain.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

— Alexander Pope