James Thurber Quotes

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

I'm here to make sense.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

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

What I care about is maximum information.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.

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

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

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

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.