Erno Rubik Quotes

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

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

You have to really know what you're saying.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Know what you're talking about.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.