143 Quotes About Explanation

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the tow are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. that's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the government encouraged the UFO cultists to flock there as the perfect cover, since no one would ever believe them.

too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii)

We spent a few hours struggling to come up with better explanations, but each suggestion was shot down almost as soon as it was made. The suggestions became wilder, eventually to the point of silliness.

Explanations are for cowards.

She said, “I was just guessing.”He said, “No, you weren’t. Whatever it was, it wasn’t just guessing.

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.

NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone’s request with a simple No.