Anthony Zerbe Quotes

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

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

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

Transparency doesn't mean much if the consumer doesn't understand what they're looking at.

Facts are often complicated.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

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

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.