Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert HubbardTags: friends enemies explanations
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.
Nick HornbyTags: explanations
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 an explanation for.
Malcolm GladwellTags: explanations
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis CarrollTags: adventure patience storytelling explanations
Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.
Ring LardnerTags: explanations daddy
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
Neil GaimanTags: reality real-life explanations odd inexplicable
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 quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North WhiteheadTags: science simple philosophy trust facts explanations complex
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 use when they need to lie. Y'can always tell those,'cause those don't explain nothing and then they look at you like they just cleared things up when really they did the opposite and they know it and you know it and they know you know and you know they know that you know and they know you and you know them and maybe you go out for a pitcher later but who picks up the tab? That's what I want to know.'
'Right, and answers?'
'Answers is what I get when I ask questions. Answers is when you got no choice. I ask, you tell. I ask again, you tell some more. Then I break your fingers, 'cause I don't like what you're telling me, because those answers don't explain nothing!
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Y él había suspirado entonces y ella le había dicho
Ernesto SabatoTags: questions answers explanations preguntas respuestas explicaciones
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, never quite fits the sight.
John BergerTags: knowledge seeing explanations connections
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