#Explanation Quotes

“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.”

“The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.”

“Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.”

“I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.”

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog:Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.”

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

“As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.”

“It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.”

“Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.”

“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”

“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”

“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.”

“In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.”

“I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.”

“Time will explain.”

“Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much”

“... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”

“A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.”

“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”