Quotes About Interpretation

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

One man's creativity is another's brain damage.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.