Intelligible Quotes
103 quotes by 92 authors
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I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is…
— Mortimer Adler
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
— Samuel Butler
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With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
— Paul Cezanne
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
— Dieter Rams
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
— Milan Kundera
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The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and…
— George H. Smith
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But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of…
— William Bayliss
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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
— Thomas Nagel
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they…
— John Henry Newman
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
— Anthony Hope
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We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
— Robert Adams
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to…
— Albert Einstein
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another…
— Walter Lippmann
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly…
— Walter Bagehot
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Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an…
— Lawrence Venuti
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The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of…
— Bruce Lee
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