Many who have spent a lifetime in love can tell you less of love than the child whose dog died yesterday.
—Thornton Wilder
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
—Saki
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
—Edwin P. Whipple
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
—Albert Einstein
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
—George Iles
The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.
—Lawrence Kushner
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
—Mark Twain
Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings
I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.
—George W. Bush
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
—Ansel Adams
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
—Anaïs Nin
The only thing that counts is the bit that cannot be explained.
—Georges Braque