Quotes About Interpretation

Acknowledge what i mean, and not what say

Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.

Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

The spoon's color does not change the soup's taste.

Wise people listen to your words. Learned people listen to their interpretation of your words.

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Everything is true for the person who believes it to be true.

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?

Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture.