Denise Morrison Quotes

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

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

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

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

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

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.

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.

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.

Facts are often complicated.

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

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

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.

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

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

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

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

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

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

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.

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 ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

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

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.