Quotes about Interpretation
In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind — that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality — its inexpressibility.
— Olga Tokarczuk
You Know what, sometimes it seems to me we've living in a world that fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves...And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problems is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other
— Olga Tokarczuk
Sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
— Oscar Wilde
Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations—He gives us His teachings which are truths that can only be interpreted by His nature which He places within us.
— Oswald Chambers
If it has been a prayer to know God better, a prayer for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, a prayer for the interpretation and understanding of God's word, it is a prayer in accordance with God's will.
— Oswald Chambers
Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.
— Oswald Chambers
No one can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations—He gives us His teachings which are truths that can only be interpreted by His nature which He places within us. The great wonder of Jesus Christ's salvation is that He changes our heredity. He does not change human nature—He changes its source, and thereby its motives as well.
— Oswald Chambers
Lord God Omniscient, give me wisdom this day to worship and work aright and be well pleasing to Thee. Lord, interpret Thyself to me more and more in fulness and beauty.
— Oswald Chambers
God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
— Oswald Chambers
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
— Pablo Picasso
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
— Pablo Picasso