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We're in the explanation business, and if the answers to the questions we explore got too simple, we'd be out of work.
speed understander,
But explanations don't change anything, do they? They don't make you feel any better. You either like something or you don't, and if you don't like it, then knowing why it happens doesn't make any difference - it's still going to happen and you're still not going to like it, so what's the point?
Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.
he didn't think the explanation explained.
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete ... to be completed in the mind of the viewer.
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?
We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.
If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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.
God is the explanation of all things.
If you want understanding try giving some.
Science is prediction, not explanation.
We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in comprehension. In understanding we start from the connection of the given, living whole, in order to make the past comprehensible in terms of it.
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
each individual reasoner is really good at one thing: finding evidence to support the position he or she already holds, usually for intuitive reasons.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
The impulse to explain is the Achilles' heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.
Simplest explanation usually the right one
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.
The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
If you have to explain it, you've told the wrong people.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Mathematics is the art of explanation.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
I do loathe explanations.
I tend to explain my songs.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
If I wanted you to understand, I would explain it better.
So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.
Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
Time will explain.
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In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
He demands an explanation.
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.
Dig into it deeper.
You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
Never explain, never complain.
To explain is sometimes to diminish. And what does it matter if I believe one thing and you believe another? We share the same end.
The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.
I can explain it to you, but I can't make you understand it.
We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.
There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help.
More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less,
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
You ask me some questions
And I give you some answers
But nothing that would make you understand.
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.
For those who understand, no explaination is needed ... For those who don't, none will do.
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.
Art doesn't explain itself.
I like her explanation better than just being a diminutive
of someone else.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
For those who are understood no need to explain
Every why has a wherefore.
We are built to be dupes for theories. But theories come and go; experience stays. Explanations
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
The whole thing confused
And so long as we have this itch for explanations, must we not always carry round with us this cumbersome but precious bag of clues called History? Another definition: Man, the animal which demands an explanation, the animal which asks Why.
I explained it when I danced it.
When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
I don't really like to explain my songs.
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
The difference between an explanation and an excuse lies with the one receiving it.
Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.