Intelligible Quotes

103 Intelligible quotes by 92 unique authors

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and… — Arnold J. Toynbee
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one… — Norah Vincent
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. — Milan Kundera
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day. — Douglas Adams
THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding… — William Butler Yeats
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected… — William A. Dembski
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and… — Annie Ernaux
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be,… — Richard Dawkins
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by… — Erich Fromm
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be… — Soren Kierkegaard
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would… — George Bernard Shaw
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as… — Giordano Bruno
Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. — Anthony Hope
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. — David Elliott
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
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source… — Charles Caleb Colton
That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. — David Hume
As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely… — Baruch Spinoza
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. — Dorothea Dix
The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed. — Blaise Pascal

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