“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
Elbert Hubbard
“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”
Napoleon Hill
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.”
William Blake
“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them”
George Savile
“Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.”
Jonathan Swift
“What is not fully understood is not possessed.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
