Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

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

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

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

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

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

The more I see, the less I know.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.