Quotes About Intelligibility

#1. Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

John Green

#2. When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.

H. Rider Haggard

#3. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#4. As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly.

Scott Kelly

#5. I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.

Adriana Lima

#6. The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the partial results of science may become more intelligible.

William Barrett

#7. Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this latter constitutes a horizon for thought, always receding just beyond the bounds of intelligibility.

Eugene Thacker

#8. I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

Alexander Payne

#10. I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

Shawn Ryan

#11. Our lives are not intelligible to us.

Marty Rubin

#12. Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.

Bertrand Russell

#13. Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Shakti Gawain

#14. Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.

Judith Butler

#15. It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Albert Camus

#16. The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.

Thomas Nagel

#17. He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.

Laini Taylor

#18. My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Isabel Allende

#19. Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.

Mark Elvin

#20. A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Albert Einstein

#21. As a re-creation of reality, a work of art has to be representational; its freedom of stylization is limited by the requirement of intelligibility; if it does not present an intelligible subject, it ceases to be art.

Ayn Rand

#22. Taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

Ravi Zacharias

#23. With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Larry Watson

#24. A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a symptom of all world-shrinking ideology, whether religiously fundamentalist or scientifically materialist. In

John F. Haught

#25. The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Ralph Cudworth

#26. Theism pushes the quest for intelligibility outside the world. If God exists, he is not part of the natural order but a free agent not governed by natural laws. He may act partly by creating a natural order, but whatever he does directly cannot be part of that order.

Thomas Nagel

#27. We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.

T. Mills

#28. Through the door came a being of intense vivacity, impeccable sartorial integrity, and intermittent intelligibility.

Terry Bisson

#29. The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy can reassure its neighbors that it is not going on a war footing, which can defuse a Hobbesian trap and cramp a leader's freedom to engage in risky bluffing and brinkmanship.

Steven Pinker

#30. I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Jane Austen

#31. Same-sex marriage - no question - is an issue.

Franklin Graham

#32. Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.

Donald Davidson