Explaining to an ignorant …...

Explaining to an ignorant person is like knocking at the door of a deaf man.

— Vikrant Parsai

An ignorant person is poorer than the man who has no money.

— Vikrant Parsai

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Judging someone before you have gotten to know them is like explaining the contents of a book youve never read.

— Rashida Rowe

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

— Richard Dawkins

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

— Andres Serrano

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

— Bill Maher

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

— Milton Mayeroff

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…

— Bill Bryson

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows…

— Donald Trump

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to…

— Felix Bloch

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they…

— Shannon L. Alder