Quotes about Interpretation
When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.
— Lewis Carroll
The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.
— Lewis Carroll
If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -
— Lewis Carroll
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.
— Lewis Carroll
So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want
— Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.
— Lewis Carroll
Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.
— Deepak Chopra
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
— Albert Einstein
A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.
— Aldous Huxley
Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.
— Aldous Huxley
And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.
— Aldous Huxley