Explicit Quotes

144 quotes by 136 authors

• While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or… — Michael Polanyi
• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are… — Wyndham Lewis
• The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the… — Alice Meynell
• Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. — Alan Watts
• The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu
• I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit — Duncan Sheik
• Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street,… — Inga Muscio
• Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud… — Tom Hooper
• The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not… — Ayn Rand
• ... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising to the level… — Douglas J. Moo
• As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit — Carol Ann Tomlinson
• The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat… — John F. Kennedy
• Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit — Doris Day
• In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
• I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. — Colleen McCullough
• What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit. — Ryan Holiday
• When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as… — Danny Kaye
• Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little… — Neal A. Maxwell
• We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a… — Gordon Brown
• You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set… — Elizabeth Moon

Who Wrote These Explicit Quotes

136 authors contributed a total of 144 Explicit Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Explicit Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• 3 Explicit Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Henri Nouwen
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Alice Meynell
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Explicit Quote by George Washington
• 1 Explicit Quote by Inga Muscio
• 1 Explicit Quote by Jesse Eisenberg
• 1 Explicit Quote by Gary Wolf
• 1 Explicit Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Explicit Quote by Tom Hooper
• 1 Explicit Quote by Samuel Alexander
• 1 Explicit Quote by Teju Cole
• 1 Explicit Quote by Michele Soavi
• 1 Explicit Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Explicit Quote by Clay Shirky
• 1 Explicit Quote by Noreena Hertz
• 1 Explicit Quote by Stephen Batchelor
• 1 Explicit Quote by Douglas J. Moo
• 1 Explicit Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Explicit Quote by Stanley Hauerwas
• 1 Explicit Quote by Vanilla Ice
• 1 Explicit Quote by Carol Ann Tomlinson
• 1 Explicit Quote by Clement Greenberg