Quotes about Interpretation

so you just think all the people from the bible were white too. But really white white people lived somewhere else during those times. That's why the bible says that Jesus Christ had hair like lamb's wool. Lamb's wool is not straight, Celie. It isn't even curly.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.