Lewis Carroll Quotes
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll
Quotes to Explore
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
Chuck Klosterman
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A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
D.T. Max
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Johannes Kepler
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
Virginia Woolf
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
Francis Bacon
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
Albert Einstein
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Lewis Trogdon
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
Adolf Hitler
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
