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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. - Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. — Albert Einstein

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it. — Albert Einstein

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words — Dante Alighieri

The best way to understanding is a few good examples. — Isaac Newton

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

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that — Donald A. Norman

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example. — C. J. Mahaney

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. — Rumi

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation - Isaac Newton

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation — Isaac Newton

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

The second piece of a good explanation is that it’s hard to vary. It has to be very precise, and there has to be a good reason for the precision. — Naval Ravikant

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. — Vladimir Lenin

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. — Frank A. Clark

Short How To Explain Quotes

  • If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. — W. Edwards Deming
  • To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. — Thomas Aquinas
  • A good explanation, first and foremost, is testable or falsifiable. — Naval Ravikant
  • It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. — Albert Einstein
  • Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. — Albert Einstein
  • Only once we have the explanation can we make the prediction. — Naval Ravikant
  • The prediction comes after the explanation. — Naval Ravikant
  • Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami
  • Read for yourself to understand concepts. — Naval Ravikant
  • Begin with the simplest examples. — David Hilbert

Top 10 How To Explain Quotes

I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone. — Dan Howell

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing. — Bobby Jones

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. — Anne Sullivan Macy

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. — Emily Carr

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. — Ernest Hello

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? — Albert Einstein

As scientists, we need to explain what we're doing and why we're doing it, not dictating how these discoveries and technologies should be used. — Jennifer Doudna

To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart. — Carl Wilhelm Scheele

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? — James Lee Burke

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself. — Sara Quin

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How to explain quote Learn to say No without explaining yourself.
Learn to say No without explaining yourself.

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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being. — Terence McKenna

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle. — Janice Dickinson

Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice. — Conan O'Brien

How to explain quote Crying is how your hear speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.
Crying is how your hear speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.

[A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing. — Robin Jones Gunn

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area. — Bob Proctor

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence. — Steven Pacey

How to explain quote Never explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway.
Never explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway.

your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house. — Chris Cleave

You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius. — Michael J. Sullivan

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed. — Robert Breault

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child. — Louise Erdrich

Hard To Explain Quotes

I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting. — Wright Thompson

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same. — Keith Haring

When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name. — Christina Aguilera

How to explain quote If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities. — Jack Ma

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little. — Luis Federico Leloir

How to explain quote I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.
I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. — Emma Donoghue

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week. — Louis Rukeyser

When I thought about it, I said "if you quit now, how you gonna explain to any other kid coming up that if something don't go their way, they're supposed to get up and go hard at it next time?" You can't if you quit. — Roy Jones Jr.

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on. — Barbara Kingsolver

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More How To Explain Quotes

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. — Jean Piaget

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me. — Raymond Carver

So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on. — Melina Marchetta

How can I be a Nazi? Explain it to my grandfather, who went through the entire war in the infantry of the Soviet army, and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine. You are being told we hate Russian culture? How can someone hate culture? Any culture? Neighbors always enrich one another culturally, but that does not make them one, does not dissolve us in you. We are different. But it is not a reason to be enemies. We want to determine our history by ourselves. In peace, calm and honesty. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child. — Robin Quivers

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again? — Margaret Bourke-White

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. — Marvin Gaye

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? — Sarah Palin

Entering in the narrow gate is allowing Him to define your life, and not in general terms. See, there's your problem. 'Oh, Jesus is everything to me, and Jesus is Lord.' Okay, specifically though, explain to me what that means: what has it cost you, how have you changed your life from the course the rest of the world is walking in? — Paul Washer

Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. — L. Neil Smith

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less. — Kevin O'Leary

Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth). — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation. — Ron Kind

As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill? — Kent Hovind

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans. — Kamila Shamsie

Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications? — Donald A. Norman

Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion. — Lincoln Steffens

I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. — Evan Sayet

I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel the same way. Last year was a tough one for all of us. We felt like we had the trophy, that we were touching it, and it slipped away. We all felt guilty. We got to this spot, and we didn't let it go. — Manu Ginobili

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy. — Tucker Max

Personally, I am more than ever inclined to believe that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are genuine. Without them I do not see how one could explain things that are happening today. More than ever, I think the Jews are at the bottom of all our troubles. — Nesta Helen Webster

No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too. — Michael Shurtleff

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? — Orhan Pamuk

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

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself. — Tom Cruise

We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians. — Robert Lustig

Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read. — Francisco J. Ayala

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