Quotes about Interpretation
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
— Todd Burpo
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
— William Faulkner
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
— William Saroyan
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist.
— Andrew Gillum
I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
— Joel Osteen
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
— Stephen Malkmus
I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.
— Bo Burnham