The Simplest Explanation Quotes

#1. The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.

Scott Adams

#2. You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Agatha Christie

#3. I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

Claire Messud

#4. 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

#5. The simplest explanation is usually the right one

William Of Ockham

#6. With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

William Of Ockham

#7. The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Lincoln Child

#8. Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Dan Brown

#10. Simplest explanation usually the right one

Kirsten Beyer

#11. The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Thomas Sowell

#12. The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

Claire Messud

#13. Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So

Harlan Coben