Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

Billy took off his tri-focals and his coat and his necktie and his shoes, and he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet. But...

1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people in India who are predominantly Hindu. And 65% of Japan’s 127 million people...

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Y él había suspirado entonces y ella le había dicho . Y él le había respondido , cómo respondemos cuando estámos pensando .

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand,...

The coincidences that I listed tonight could have the most distressing of possible explanations or the most encouraging of possible explanations or a mixture. But there’s a larger issue, and I hope you have an...

I wish he would explain his explanation

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than...

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

We don’t know why anything happens or why anything is.

It’s simpler to believe in a miracle.

Explanations are for cowards.

Moths don’t need to explain why their attracted to the light.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our...

Sorting out what’s good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents,...

Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains...

Moths don’t need to explain why they’re attracted to the light.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.(“The Wendigo”)

We simply provided additional explanations of what we had in place when the first team came.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Who can explain life? Who can understand it? Like cats, we just do what we do.

It’s a fruitless task, explaining yourself,” he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. “Either people get you, or they don’t. In fact, even when they get you, it’s always…a disappointment.

Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you’d better answer them!’ [slurred Hellian.] ‘With what?’ [Banaschar] sneered. ‘Explanations?’ ‘No. Answers. There’s a difference-‘ ‘Really? How? What difference?’ ‘Explanations are what people...

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation,...

Wars have always been easier to fight than explain.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

What happened?” Bailey asks.”That is somewhat difficult to explain,” Tsukiko answers. “It is a long and complicated story.””And you’re not going to tell me, are you?”She tilts her head a bit … “No, I am...

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it holds for the mystery. We retain the child in us...

Complicated explanations rarely come from true understanding. Simple explanations either come from naivety or true understanding. Learning to tell the difference amplifies outcomes.

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that...