#explanation

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

— Algernon Blackwood

#explanation #explanations #experience

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

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 think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explanations #failure #good #i #i think

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#explanation #how #mathematical #tie

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #course #depends #europe #everything

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#body #conscious #explanation #fact #inner