Best 64 quotes in «explaining quotes» category

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

There's nothing cooler than someone explaining to you, as if it was easy, how they create antimatter. And they kept saying things like, "Well obviously you know that...

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene. All at once it seemed totally clear to Mike that she was right and he was nuts - that his ingenius theory was nonsense, childish, fantasty bullshit. His conviction evaporated, and he was ashamed. He felt his cheeks grow hot, groped for words with which to backtrack - "I have to admit I have no better explanation for the the facts," Annie said slowly. Again, Mike did an emotional instant 180. "Holy shit -" She held up a hand. "I am going to think now. Very hard, for a long time. You will be as quiet as possible while I do." She got up from the computer, went to the bed, and lay down. "Think yourself, or read, or play games with the headphones on, or go Topside if you like." She clasped her hands on her belly, closed her eyes and appeared to go to sleep

It's very important to know when to stop explaining yourself, because not everyone with ears listens with them.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind, the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that, and why I don’t want to look like this and be like that but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.

People often pretend to be happy simply because smiling tends to be easier than explaining to others why they're upset.

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes, knows; the one who explains, lies. How can you describe the true form of Something In whose presence you are blotted out? And in whose being you still exist? And who lives as a sign for your journey?

Sometimes just explaining your predicament--to a bartender, a priest, the old woman in a shift and flip-flops cleaning the lint traps in the Laundromat dryers--is all it takes to see a way out of it.

The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.

There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.

Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done!

Never explain: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.