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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

Understand, Enough, Simply

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson

Honest, Gone, Edge

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

Possible, Physics, Laws

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Friends, Anyway

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Why

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Politics, Tomorrow, Happen

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

Death, Two, Cannot

Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Value, Number, Principle

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.
Eminem

Focus, While, Mine

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

Friendship, Great, Nothing

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Cannot, Sense

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

Religion, Bitter, Guns

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot

Passion, Person, Light

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

Mind, Whatever, Makes

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand

Everybody, Decided, Hardest

Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Mitch Hedberg

Football, Weird

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Effort, Worth, Knowing

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

Time, Him, Wish

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Nothing, Else

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Children, Him

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
Billy Graham

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich

Soldier, Grateful, American

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

Before, Idea, Ghost

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
Charles Stanley

God, Blessings, Him

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley

Great, Through, Away

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins

Nature, Simple, Difficult

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