Quotes about Interpretation
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
— William Jones
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
— John Malkovich
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
— AW Tozer
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
— Samuel Johnson
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
— St. Augustine
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.
— JM Coetzee
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
— CS Lewis
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
— Rachel Held Evans
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
— Maya Angelou