Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains

Never Explain Anything.

I didn’t ask you to explain the problem to me, I asked you to fix it for me.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

If you can’t explain something to a first year student, then you haven’t really understood

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

You can’t explain Chanel. It’s a verb.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does not need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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?

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.