Comprehensibility Quotes

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.