Anonymous Quotes

I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

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

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

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

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

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

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.

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

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

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

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

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.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I'm here to make sense.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.