Intelligible

Famous quotes containing the word intelligible:

    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 (1826–1877)

    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 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)