Explain Them Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. — Frank A. Clark
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by… — Robert Lowie
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what… — Ryan Gosling
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot… — Giuseppe Peano
I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them… — Jared Diamond
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at… — Jessica Zafra
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt… — Karen Russell
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not… — Malcolm Turnbull
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is… — Alfred Edersheim
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an… — D. A. Carson
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere… — Jim Talent
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject… — David Maraniss
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why… — Frederick Buechner
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! — Max Muller
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly. — D. A. Carson
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can… — Nick Hornby
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art… — Stephen Fry
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them canâ€™t explain them, and those who havenâ€™t known them have… — Michael Ende

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