Quotes about Interpretation

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Tryphena?" "It's Greek. Means 'delicate.' Brin came across it the other day somewhere in the Bible,

Flowers are the hieroglyphics of angels. Loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments—the elements of thought—until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.

Find and interpreting the important words.

Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.

The questions answered by inspectional reading are: first, what kind of book is it? second, what is it about as a whole? and third, what is the structural order of the work whereby the author develops his conception or understanding of that general subject matter?

you have to discover the meaning of a word you do not understand by using the meanings of all the other words in the context that you do understand.