Quotes About Interpretation

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We do not ignore the use of the meaning in dreaming. But it is good to recognize that there is also dreaming in meaning.

Mounted on a horse, we were useful in direct proportion to our powers of observation and our ability to interpret what we say, faculties, of course, which are sharpened by interest. And our interest was boundless.

many people are good at talking and bad at understanding

I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

There is no place for objective reality in personal relationships. Objective reality is great for getting trains to run on time or for developing an important vaccine, but for ferreting out which point of view is "valid" in an interpersonal transaction, it is a loser.

Art is the struggle to understand.