Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. ~ Greg Anderson

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~ Frank A. Clark

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. ~ Major Kira Nerys

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable. ~ John Muir

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~ Elbert G. Hubbard

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. ~ Charlie Chaplin

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~ Katherine Mansfield

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. ~ Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.~ Wendell Berry

I give up. Now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said "The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.” ~ Robert H. Jackson

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations. ~ Saki (H.H. Munro), Square Eggs

All things being equal, the simplest explanation is the best. ~ William of Ockham