Intelligible Quotes

103 quotes by 92 authors

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
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. — Dieter Rams
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. — Oscar Wilde
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
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera
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
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
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel
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
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. — Anthony Hope
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. — Robert Adams
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
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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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