Top 33 Simple Explanation Quotes
#1. I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles
champions every one.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
Langston Hughes
#3. I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
Salman Rushdie
#4. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Seneca.
#5. The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
Bill Ayers
#6. To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.
Henry Steele Commager
#7. Nathan called all shiksas Maria
the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.
Philip Roth
#8. 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
#9. Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei
#10. Evil is simple. It's a child's explanation for why people do bad things. The truth is always more complicated and worth pursuing.
Mindy Mejia
#11. Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough
as most wrong theories are!
H.G.Wells
#12. Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion.
Symeon The New Theologian
#13. We're in the explanation business, and if the answers to the questions we explore got too simple, we'd be out of work.
Michael Pollan
#14. A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.
Richard Dawkins
#15. Don't ask me how he got here, or what he really is. I think we've all learned over the years that the sooner we accept the simple explanation for the unexplained, the better chance we have of surviving a crisis.
Christopher Moore
#16. There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#17. By the close of 2015, the queen had visited 128 countries. Her most popular destination was Canada (27 visits), followed by Australia (18 visits). When asked to explain her desire to explore, Elizabeth reportedly had a simple yet logical explanation. "I have to be seen to be believed.
The Editors Of LIFE
#18. Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.
Jonathan Vilma
#19. The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.
Rick Falkvinge
#20. The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
James Whistler
#21. It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
Samuel Beckett
#22. Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.
Mike McCurry
#23. There is a simple explanation for why men haven't found women funny. It's because men only ever experience women in relation to men: they never get to see what women are like with one another. Shows like ours started to let men in on the joke.
Magda Szubanski
#24. Energetic rumormonger who calls himself Dan Dan the Radio Man.
Ben H. Winters
#25. If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
Ivar Giaever
#26. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.
Proclus
#27. NO" is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone's request with a simple No.
Sharon E. Rainey
#28. Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
Emma Donoghue
#29. The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed
John Wooden
#30. Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
Mick Jagger
#32. Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
#33. Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
William Falconer
