Intelligibility Quotes

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“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, The Rebel

“Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.”
― Anthony Hope

“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, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization