#explanation

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. ↗

— Alec Wilkinson

#intuition #self-knowledge #age

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

— Elbert Hubbard

#explanations #friends #enemy

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish. ↗

— Fiona Wood

#underwear #art

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#always #been #explanation #man #none

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#explanation #humility #uncertainty #education

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#embarked #explanation #i #life #my life

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#explanations #harvard #tired #words