Quotes About Interpretation

That was sarcasm. I cannot read tea leaves. I mean, not unless someone lines them up in the shapes of letters.)

Letters are restless, hungry for an image, and the image is thirsty for a meaning.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

You must know that it is very injurious to begin with this branch of philosophy, viz., Metaphysics; or to explain [at first] the sense of the similes occurring in prophecies, and interpret the metaphors which are employed in historical accounts and which abound in the writings of the Prophets.

Elohim is a homonym, and denotes God, angels, judges, and the rulers of countries,

The passage, "And He rested on the seventh day" (Exod. xx. 11) is interpreted as follows: On the seventh Day the forces and laws were complete, which during the previous six days were in the state of being established for the preservation of the Universe. They were not to be increased or modified.

Remember that it is not right to take a passage out of its context and to draw inferences from it. It is imperative to take into consideration the preceding and following statements in order to fathom the writer's meaning and purpose before making any deductions.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about "it" is in your mind and your to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST

Arabic gives English technical terms such a nadir, azimuth, and zenith.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Why had I thought of it that way? As a friendship both of us needed? That didn't make any sense at all.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Both our triumphs and our tragedies are defined as much by how we perceive as by what we do.

There is no doubt that the Old Testament is a physiological and anatomical textbook to those capable of reading it from a scientific viewpoint.

In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.

seems incredible to them that metals and characters

Words are vehicles of ideas, and unless they are understood properly misunderstanding is inevitable.

Australians must decide for themselves whether this was the land of the dreaming, the land of the Holy Spirit, the New Britannia, the Millennial Eden, or the new demesne for Mammon to infest.

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

Down here everything is symbol and mystery.