Explicit Quotes

144 quotes by 136 authors

• Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann
• The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
• He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a… — E. M. Forster
• Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they… — Norman Doidge
• We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from… — Mark Levin
• The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person.… — M. Scott Peck
• Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt
• My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than… — Charles Dickens
• I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations,… — Anais Nin
• In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought… — Henri Nouwen
• All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. — Patrick Rothfuss
• We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing. — Burton Silverman
• We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
• If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and… — Gary Wolf
• One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole
• We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit. — Noreena Hertz
• The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our… — Stanley Hauerwas
• While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a… — Vint Cerf
• Marathon runners set explicit goals. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

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 Alice Meynell
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Noam Chomsky
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Henri Nouwen
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
• 1 Explicit Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 Explicit Quote by M. Ward
• 1 Explicit Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1 Explicit Quote by Alan Watts
• 1 Explicit Quote by James Mark Baldwin
• 1 Explicit Quote by Patrick Rothfuss
• 1 Explicit Quote by Jose Lopez
• 1 Explicit Quote by Tim Wu
• 1 Explicit Quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah
• 1 Explicit Quote by Burton Silverman
• 1 Explicit Quote by Amartya Sen
• 1 Explicit Quote by Duncan Sheik
• 1 Explicit Quote by Gary Ackerman
• 1 Explicit Quote by Thomas Kuhn
• 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