Explaining Quote by Myrtle Reed

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

— Edward Gorey

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

— Maria Edgeworth

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

— Terry Pratchett

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

— Robert Ley

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

— Shel Silverstein

The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

— Barry Jenkins

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

— Frantz Fanon

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

— Baltasar Gracian

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

— Casey Stengel

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

— Baltasar Gracian

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

— Raymond Holliwell

I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

— Lou Barlow