Definition of Intelligible
Intelligible
Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc.
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Intelligible Quotations
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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 process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Thomas Huxley
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Milan Kundera
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 second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Paul Cezanne
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 anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
Mortimer Adler
Intelligible Translations
intelligible in Spanish is inteligible
intelligible in Swedish is begriplig
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