Quotes About Context

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Jesus communicated parables to the secular people around him and he used stories that were very relevant to their lives, and He was taking heaven's truth and packaging it in an earthly context.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

In the final analysis, I learned that there is no such thing as the correct answers; it is only perspective

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface.

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. "It

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That was his intellectual instinct, his natural first step to the mental hoop: to take whatever someone had just said to him and try not to tear it down but to make sense of it.

Cambiando el contexto en que se comparan dos cosas se ocultan ciertos rasgos y emergen otros a la superficie

What constitutes a gain or a loss depends on the representation of the problem and on the context in which it arises

People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context.

the critical influence of "set" and "setting." Set is the mind-set or expectation one brings to the experience, and setting is the environment in which it takes place.

The Buddhists are probably right about chopping onions: It's all a matter of how you choose to see and experience it, as a chore to resist or a kind of path—a practice, even. Depending on the context, the very same activity can have diametrically opposed meanings.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.