“we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd. — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image