Implicit Understanding Quotes

We know more than we can tell.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.