Sufficient Explanation

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or explanation:

    “Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)