#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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Anthony Hope

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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

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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. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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

— Anthony Hope

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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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

— Milan Kundera

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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. ↗

— Dieter Rams

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ↗

— Jane Austen

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