Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.

Austrian Musician

Chris Pavone

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.

American Novelist

Nicolas Malebranche

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.

French Philosopher

Richard Cobden

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.

British Businessman

James Joseph Sylvester

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 of human intelligence.

English Mathematician

Kenneth L. Pike

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.

American Sociologist

John Updike

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.

David Elliott

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

British Artist

Hans Jonas

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

German Philosopher

Tom Stoppard

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

English Dramatist

Use 'intelligible' to describe speech that is clear and distinct enough to be heard properly.

Auditory Clarity

Refers to writing that is clear and easy to read, with no ambiguity.

Written Precision

Describes something that can be comprehended by anyone without specialist knowledge.

General Understanding

Used for ideas in philosophy that can be grasped by the human mind.

Philosophical Concepts

In academic contexts, 'intelligible' means work that is understandable to a learned audience.

Academic Writing

It emphasizes the accessibility of complex ideas, making them understandable.

Accessible Ideas

 When we first got the code, it's literally zeros and ones. It's sort of unintelligible. It was only later that we were able to determine that actually this code was targeted, specifically, at Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. LIAM Uranium enrichment facilities are very secure facilities. It's not like they're connected to the internet.

The Future of...

 There are many things that we can do to get us there. Obviously opening up the data is one, but the important thing is to create lots more -- create and curate -- lots more participatory opportunities. Hackathons and mashathons and working with data to build apps is an intelligible way for people to engage

Beth Noveck: Demand a...

 is it it's really doing something that i i can't think of a lot of precedent for which is that it's weaving together you know profound explanations and i think really intelligible explanations about the nature of the universe and space-time and dark matter which we're going to get into with

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...

 and empathy a national priority. There is no way that we should allow government to communicate the way they communicate. There is no way we should do business with companies that have agreements with stealth provisions and that are unintelligible. So, how are we going to change the world?

Alan Siegel: Let's...

 started to be spelt differently think of words like love and honey which look like they should be pronounced love and Honi they were actually formally spelt with you like it sounds like they were but that shifted into an ode just so it wasn't this unintelligible minam's party

The evolution of the...

 priority there is no way that we should allow government to communicate the way they communicate there is no way we should do business with companies that have agreements with stealth provisions and that aren't intelligible so how are we going to change the world make

Let's simplify legal...

 and an enraged giant aurochs isn't very hard to predict. Nor was it authenticity that I was looking for. I don't find that a useful or even intelligible concept. I just wanted a richer and rawer life than I've been able to lead in Britain, or, indeed,

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 up the data is one but the important thing is to create lots more create and curate lots more participatory opportunities hackathons and math ons and working with data to build apps is an intelligible way for people to engage

Demand a more...

 crossing political fault lines. It should resonate with deep needs and desires. It should be simple and intelligible, and it should be grounded in reality. Now, I admit that all of this sounds like a bit of a tall order.

The new political story...

 it's not red grass lettuce it's something unintelligible I imagine that Lenin Willard the type said it wasn't unintelligible that needeth

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