Quotes About Interpretation

Disagreement is not the conflict between one who says white and another who says black. It is the conflict between one who says white and another who also says white but does not understand the same thing by it.

Pues, en fin, ¿qué diferencia hay entre un pagano y un cristiano? No mucha. Una pequeña diferencia acerca de la interpretación de la Naturaleza. El pagano cree en la naturaleza tal como esta se muestra; el cristiano cree en la naturaleza, pero según el reverso que la sustenta

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

Un livre a toujours deux auteurs : celui qui l'écrit et celui qui le lit.

J'accepte que ce que je dis n'est pas toujours ce qui est entendu et que ce que j'entends n'est pas forcément ce qui est dit.

Reac?iile noastre sunt determinate mai mult de interpretarea pe care o d?m evenimentelor decât de evenimentele în sine. S? vezi prin ochii altuia (privirea unei ter?e persoane este uneori util?), s? accep?i s?-?i repui în discu?ie convingerile este singura posibilitate de a avansa, de a evolua, de a te maturiza, de a cre?te.

You know, a carving, especially if it's polychrome, is not meant to move. These faces, these half-bodies, when you animate them, they're more live than the living. They can be dangerous for those who don't really understand them. With contained energy, no one can predict what will happen when it's released.

Era del signo de Aries, y la descripción de los que han nacido bajo ese signo, tal como aparece en obras de astrología, le va como un guante. Conseguí, al otro lado del semáforo, que

Both the devil and the artist share the same dream: to unknow the world.

could respond, they heard a

Well, you know what they say: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

It wasn't her fault. It wasn't my fault. But nothing could change the fact that where she saw beautiful flowers I saw sorrow and bitterness.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

Words cannot embody; they can only describe.

I understand, Catherine," he said. What does he mean that he understands, Catherine wondered. Something I failed to hear, no doubt, she thought, though their words had been so few that she could not imagine what. But she quickly decided not to exasperate him ;by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it.

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon

Whenever you interpret anything, you can read it two ways: in such a way that your interpretation creates mercy, and in such a way that it creates sacrifice.

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

Thoughts pass from one individual to another, each time a little transformed, for each individual can attach to them somewhat different associations. Strictly speaking, the receiver never understands the thought exactly in the way that the transmitter intended it to be understood. After a series of such encounters, practically nothing is left of the original content. Whose thought is it that continues to circulate?

THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

It is so.When YOU think so

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.