The prediction comes after the explanation. — Naval Ravikant
Only once we have the explanation can we make the prediction. — Naval Ravikant
No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates. — Osho
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice. — Joseph Dunninger
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. — Thomas Aquinas
The second piece of a good explanation is that it’s hard to vary. It has to be very precise, and there has to be a good reason for the precision. — Naval Ravikant
A good explanation, first and foremost, is testable or falsifiable. — Naval Ravikant
People are the entities within the universe that create explanations. They’re able to explain what raw materials might be transformed into. — Naval Ravikant
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation — Isaac Newton
Good explanations don’t have to be obvious. They’re not derived from just looking at what happened in the past. Rather, they are testable. — Naval Ravikant
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham
Short Explanation Quotes
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung
Never complain. Never explain. — Katharine Hepburn
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard
Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye. — Waylon Jennings
It puts humans and their creativity and their bid to find good explanations back at the core of it. — Naval Ravikant
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. — Paulo Coelho
The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. — Sonny Barger
Everybody has an explanation and everybody wants to have the last word. — Mahatria Ra
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. — Oscar Wilde
Explanation Image Quotes
Don't waste your time with explanations people only hear what they want to hear.
No Explanation Quotes
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh. — Michael Craig-Martin
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults. — David Lee Roth
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. — C. S. Lewis
Live your life as an exclamation, not as an explanation.
I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations. — Aaron Burr
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life. — Michael Behe
Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure. — Rene Magritte
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being. — Richard Dawkins
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams
Love Explanation Quotes
I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed. — George Burns
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. — Mark Twain
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good. — Philip Yancey
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. — Rumi
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? — William Godwin
My uncle used to love me, but she died. — Roger Miller
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. — Nancy Kerrigan
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong. — B. C. Forbes
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. — Joseph Conrad
It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful. — Stephen Hawking
Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. — Anne Lamott
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. — John Berger
Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn. — Hillel the Elder
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it. — Federico Fellini
That’s what science is, that whole complicated story about how the particles are moving faster. It’s not about trends and predictions; it’s about explanations. — Naval Ravikant
Through creativity, we can always come up with good explanations to improve our lives and everybody else’s lives. — Naval Ravikant
In fact, the way we generate new explanations is through creativity. And the way we judge one explanation against another is either through experimental refutation or a straightforward criticism, when we realize that one explanation is bad. — Naval Ravikant
As the ancient Greeks replaced myth-based explanations with mechanistic models of the Solar System, their emphasis shifted from asking why to asking how. — Max Tegmark
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. — Harold Hook
According to Cantillon, the beneficiaries from the expansion of the money supply are the first recipients of the new money, who are able to spend it before it has caused prices to rise. Whoever receives it from them is then able to spend it facing a small increase in the price level. As the money is spent more, the price level rises, until the later recipients suffer a reduction in their real purchasing power. This is the best explanation for why inflation hurts the poorest and helps the richest in the modern economy. — Saifedean Ammous
The more important reason why people shouldn't be afraid is, we're never going to inadvertently go and explain everything. We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we're never going to learn everything about everything. When you study science, and especially these realms of the biology of what makes us human, what's clear is that every time you find out something, that brings up ten new questions, and half of those are better questions than you started with. — Robert M. Sapolsky
This could be a cause of despair for mathematicians who view mathematics as this abstract, perfect, fully self-contained thing. But Chaitin makes the argument that, actually, it opens up for creativity in mathematics. It means that even in mathematics you are always one step away from falsifying something and then finding a better explanation for it. — Naval Ravikant
What confuses people is that induction and Bayesianism work well for finite, constrained spaces that are already known. They’re not good for new explanations. — Naval Ravikant
Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do. — Elisabeth Elliot
People who don't trust you before the explanation will not trust you even after the explanation. Trust cannot be negotiated. — Mahatria Ra
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism. — John Lennox
Good explanations rely on creativity. They are testable and falsifiable, of course, and they’re also hard to vary and to make risky and narrow predictions. — Naval Ravikant
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. — Richard Dawkins
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. — C. S. Lewis
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. — William of Ockham
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. — William Beveridge
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