Robert Ley Quotes

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

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

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.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

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

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

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

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

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.

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