Intelligible Quotes

103 Intelligible quotes by 92 unique authors

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. — Aristotle
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible. — Douglas McIlroy
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing… — Miguel de Cervantes
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under… — Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. — Walter Lippmann
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that… — Charles Sanders Peirce
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These… — Keith Olbermann
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption. — Nancy Pearcey
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it… — Nicolas Malebranche
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible… — Kenneth Lee Pike
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws… — James Joseph Sylvester
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd. — Robert Hugh Benson
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's… — John Updike
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as… — Lewis Carroll
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make… — Oliver Sacks
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that… — Arthur Middleton
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. — Martin Heidegger
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. — David Hume
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a… — Thomas Huxley

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