Quotes about Interpretation
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
— Hildegard of Bingen
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
— Carl Jung
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
— Joseph Addison
Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.
— Origen
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
— Oscar Wilde
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