Top 166 Intelligible Quotes & Sayings

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 the great range of life.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

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 there is enough of them.

There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

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 pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

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 process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

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 are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

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 self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

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 to us.

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

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 that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.