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Quotes about Interpretation

They came to know the night skys well. Western eyes that read more geometric constructions than those names given by the ancients.
— Cormac McCarthy
We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say. Said off a Dutchman.
— Cormac McCarthy
and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.
— Cormac McCarthy
Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.
— Craig Keener
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
— DH Lawrence
Art-speech is the only truth.
— DH Lawrence
There is nothing either good or bad," said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes it so.
— Dale Carnegie
The language that reveals also obscures.
— Wendell Berry
It is plain that complete havoc must be made of the whole system of revealed truth, unless we consent to derive our philosophy from the Bible, instead of explaining the Bible by our philosophy.
— Charles Hodge
Romanists argue that such is the obscurity of the Scriptures, that not only the people, but the Church itself needs the aid of tradition in order to their being properly understood. But if the Bible, a comparatively plain book, in one probable volume, needs to be thus explained, what is to explain the hundreds of folios in which these traditions are recorded? Surely a guide to the interpretation of the latter must be far more needed than for the Scriptures.
— Charles Hodge
I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.
— Charles Martin
It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.
— Charles Martin