Quotes About Interpret

There was a message to be translated, symbolism to be aligned and understood.

The truth is there. Work it out.

you have to discover the meaning of a word you do not understand by using the meanings of all the other words in the context that you do understand.

beware that] "many of what are called social problems are differences between the theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world—differences which many intellectuals interpret to mean that it is the real world that is wrong and needs changing.

Trantor?' 'That's right. What was once the Empire is bare bones today, but something must still be at the centre. They've got the records there, Ebling. You may learn more of mathematical psychology; perhaps enough to be able to interpret the clown's mind. He will go with you, of course.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

Thus the world assumed another and a better aspect from the hour that the poet blessed it with his happy eyes. The Creator had bestowed him, as the last best touch to his own handiwork. Creation was not finished till the poet came to interpret, and so complete it.

Yank grunted. "That sums it up.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

To hear does not mean to understand.

Librat nuk janë bërë për tu besuar, por për t'u hetuar. Kur lexojmë një libër nuk duhet të pyesim veten çfarë thotë, por çfarë nënkupton

Oh, please, do try to explain it to them. We'll be here for ninety years, and at the end of it they'll be quite certain you've told them that Mohammed is a turtle with an excellent singing voice. May you have better luck than I!

Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is one reason for his almost universal appeal. He changes each of his readers into a poet or an artist.

Don't read with your eyes.

you can make mean anything.

Some translators turn an author's words from gold to stone, others from stone to gold.

Let me understand you. Let me piece you together, hold you together. Let me help you to explain yourself.

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, "Go on then, read what the letter tells you!" whereas the dull-witted will say, "Go on then, read what he's written!

You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?

you have to understand in order to disagree.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.