Quotes About Interpretation

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.