Quotes about Interpretation
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
What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
— Max Lucado
Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.
— William Barclay
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
— William Howard Taft
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
— William James
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
— William James
Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.
— Andrew Wommack