Quotes about Interpretation
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
Reality is an interpretation.
— Deepak Chopra
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
— Leland Ryken
When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
— Max Lucado
You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.
— John Maxwell
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
— Jennifer Aniston
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
— Emily Bronte
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
— Emily Bronte
In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
— Epictetus
It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.
— Epictetus