Explanation Quote by Oscar Wilde
“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
About This Quote
The quote urges creating an explanation that is unlikely, emphasizing creativity and surprise.
In simple terms: Make explanations surprising.
Key Takeaway
Craft unexpected, imaginative explanations.
Themes
creativity
surprise
communication
Mood
playful
provocative
Type
literary
inspirational
When to use this quote
- writing
- teaching
- public speaking
Key Concepts
rhetoric
storytelling
Questions to Reflect On
- How can you balance originality with clarity?
- When is surprise most effective?
A Different Perspective
Overly improbable explanations can confuse rather than clarify.
![“They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b0/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_century_they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-o_12921.jpg)
![“[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows why he still won't use it because the explanation is no good. And I mean, honestly we have a president that in my opinion really doesn't know what he's doing.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb3/donald-trump-18_barack_barack-obama-will-spend-long-periods-of_29283.jpg)
