Intelligible

Famous quotes containing the word intelligible:

    The first indication of a young person’s growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    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 Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)