Quotes of: Interpretations Keyword

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from...

Edward W. Said

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Kenneth Burke

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilitie...

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Silence is the interpreter of happiness.

Arabian

A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.

Allan Savory

I urge not that we assume that love will provide a reliable foundation for knowledge but that we nonetheless keep the requirements of love of neighbor foremost in our interpretations of Scripture. We should consider, for example, love to be a necessa...

Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation

There are different churches because men wanted to interpret the Bible to their favour and which conflicts with the next person's interpretation. These led to people starting different churches, that ministers what they interpret as right.

Unarine Ramaru

Heavenly music is interpreted differently by everyone.

Chinese

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

John Morley

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Katey Sagal

I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in an...

Diana Krall

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Mason Cooley

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

Paula Cole

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

Robert Vaughan

As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.

African

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

The Interpretation of Murder

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The Interpretation of Dreams

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

The Interpretation of Murder

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Yann Martel

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Charlotte Bronte