Explain Quotes

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

~ Paulo Coelho

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

~ Haruki Murakami

Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception, within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy.

~ Steve Maraboli

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

~ Abraham H. Maslow

I give respect and reciprocate with enthusiasm to anyone who is nice, kind and respectful towards me. I appreciate the presence of people in my life but, if someone doesn’t value mine, then I find no reason to explain my absence to them.

~ Latika Teotia

I’m aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don’t owe any explanation to anyone.

~ Latika Teotia

The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?

~ Rabia Al-Adawiyya

It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.

~ Kamand Kojouri

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone, that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

~ Dan Chaon

Sometimes we do not have words to explain our emotions, just a smile is enough.

~ Gaurav Grv Sharma

Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is no record in Scripture that an angel visited John’s cell to explain the meaning of his persecution. This great, godly man who was the designated forerunner to Jesus went through the same confusing experiences as we. It is comforting to know that John responded in a very human way. He sent a secret message to Jesus from his prison cell, asking “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3). Have you ever felt like asking that question?

~ James C. Dobson

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

~ Andy Stanley

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

~ Andrea Goeglein

I figured out that I'm better off not explaining how and why I do the things that I do. If people can only read the surface of what you are, and that's all they want to see, let them see just what they need to see. Everything more is just something to keep and share only with the people that desire and are ready to receive that information. Words wasted on ears that do not listen and eyes that do not see are just seeds thrown on rocky ground. Prepare your ground first and then ask for the seeds.

~ Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

~ Megan Chance

He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing

~ Johnny Rich

Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves.

~ Jay Woodman

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

~ Steven Pinker

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.

~ Amanda Craig

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's very important to know when to stop explaining yourself, because not everyone with ears listens with them.

~ Hafiz

The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could deny to be a matter of fact, when his attention was drawn to the evidence; and the occurrence of great geological changes which also was matter of fact; could be used as the only necessary postulates of a theory of the evolution of plants and animals which, even if not at once, competent to explain all the known facts of biological science, could not be shown to be inconsistent with any.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

He's a tourist. He takes pictures of people's lives, puts them in a scrapbook, and moves on. All he's interested in is stories. Basically Leslie, he's selfish. And you're not. That's why you don't like him.

~ Ron Swanson

No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.

~ Debasish Mridha

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

~ Brian Greene

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

~ Fredrik Backman

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

~ Lord Northcliffe

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

~ Rabindranath Tagore

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

~ Werner Heisenberg

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

~ Stephen Hawking

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

~ Donald Knuth