Wendell Berry Quotes

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Facts are often complicated.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

Transparency doesn't mean much if the consumer doesn't understand what they're looking at.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.