Quotes About Interpretation

The first challenge is that, you cannot expect everyone to get the same understanding of the book. Are we not all unique in life?

The first step in becoming a philosopher is to become overly sensitive to words, including idioms.

The names Christ and Buddha are just common names, and anyone can easily claim them.

The same formula, applied by two people, can produce different results. The experience is individualized.

The scriptures must be understood correctly and not reciting them only with excitement.

There will always be a touch of fiction in non-fiction books and reality in works of fiction.

Those who claim that we cannot understand religious scriptures are the ones who wish to keep us more confused than before.

To understand the philosophical ideologies of Karl Marx, you have to read between the lines.

Trust not these prophets of today, who are still using the same old Bible as a referencing point.

We cannot tell, at first sight, who is correct or wrong, because we are all caught up in a different perceptive, views and opinions.

What benefit will I get if I know one book from cover to cover? —Isn't this filling my mind with the ideas of others and losing creativity?!

You can see the beauty in things only after learning the meaning of the word 'beautiful'.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.

In the Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, the reader tries to reconstruct the past through participants and witnesses to that past, but what results is a blurred, ambiguous fiction within another fiction that recounts past events in accord with individual perspectives and interests. In this case, reality becomes fiction not only because the novelist fictionalized it but because the acts of remembering are so deformed or willfully mendacious that it is itself a fiction.

Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution.

She was not listening at the level of language but beneath it, in the deep recesses of the imagination.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

A cynic once defined a metaphor as 'a simile with the words of comparison left out'.

Metaphors are so prevalent that if one were to specifically look out for them it would spoil completely one's reading and listening, and thus detract from the author's purpose.

The word 'metaphor' itself can be used in a non-literal way.

there is a sense in which literacy actually distorts the archeological record, for while it illuminates the centers of civilization, it makes the darkness surrounding even darker.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.