Quotes About Interpretation

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.