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There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor. -- Frank Howard Clark
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. -- Frank A. Clark
The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question. -- Norman Finkelstein
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical. -- Tess Gerritsen
I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job. -- Bruce Willis
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. -- Patrick White
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. -- Pablo Picasso
The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself. -- Colin Blakemore
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, -- Robert Lowell
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. -- Edith Hamilton
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. -- dream hampton
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. -- Richard Dawkins
I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey. -- Pusha T
Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible. -- Greg Gutfeld
I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away. -- Paul Feyerabend
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind. -- Jerome Drayton
I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me. -- Esperanza Spalding
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit. -- Mark Twain
The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator. -- Bassem Youssef
When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way. -- Amy Lowell
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken. -- John Robinson
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. -- James J. Gibson
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain. -- Roberto Unger
No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them? -- Sierra D. Waters
Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion. -- Janet Evanovich
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. -- Richard Reeves
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game. -- Emily Giffin
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea. -- Neil Peart
I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times. -- Richard Yates
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
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
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me. -- Dominique Fernandez
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales. -- Nate Berkus
There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways by tens of thousands of different institutions, who really disagree with each other far more than they disagree with people of other religions. -- Mark Durie
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. -- Elie Ducommun
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. -- John Steinbeck
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. -- Joseph Joubert
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life. -- Mitt Romney
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. -- Paul Davies
You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work. -- Sarah Hall
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'. -- Jaiprakash Gaur
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. -- Rumi
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me. -- Phillip Phillips
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. -- Marvin Harris
There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that. -- Frank Luntz
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate. -- Helen Mirren
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
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. -- Thelonious Monk
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd. -- Milton Glaser
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green. -- Cathleen Falsani
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. -- Stephen King
I'm not really trying to be sexy. I try to explain to girls that you don't have to have long blond hair and big boobs. -- Miley Cyrus
When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself. -- Michael Eisen

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