They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction.
I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.
Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.
For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.
I will reach out to others and explain why I make the decisions I make.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.
There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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.
Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood.
It's hard to explain. It's a love that I never knew existed until I had my first son. Basically what I'm saying is it's the most beautiful thing in the world. It's the biggest blessing I ever had in my life.
If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.