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“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own…

— Charles Platkin

“Buddha said: ‘Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,’ and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy,…

— Dale Carnegie

“Do not give explanation to anyone, everyone understands only what they want to understand.”

— Nitin Namdeo

“Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred…

— James Rozoff

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

— John Burdett

The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect…

— Frederick Lenz

“To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.”

— Jacques Rancière

“So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve human intention.”

— Marilynne Robinson

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. Forthose who do not understand, no explanation is possible

— Hemantsmarty

“Though we run across exceptions, philosophical novels where explanation holds interest, the temptation to explain is one that should almost always be resisted. A…

— John Gardner

“For, although the Buddhas themselves do not cling to such notions as purity and impurity or truth and untruth, they assist the beings who…

— Karl Brunnholzl