Quotes About Interpretation

We occasionally find ourselves either standing in the midst of miserable misunderstanding, or stepping into it totally unintentionally. Misunderstandings can often arise because of our undue reading between the lines, or hearing the unspoken words. Sometimes it's prudent to accept and trust, and take everything at its face value, despite so much of deceit and blatant lies all around.

feelings should not be denied, avoided, or suppressed. Rather, the effective facilitator should help others to make sense of them—what do they mean and say about the person? This is a two-prong approach that involves the ability to monitor and attribute meaning to one's own feelings and those of the trainees.

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.

I thought you wanted me to talk more," he said when he noticed her silence. "Can't have it both ways, Stephanie. I can't be quiet when you want to sulk and chatty when you want to chat. That's not how it works. That's not how I work." "I'm not sulking." "Well, you're doing something with your face that resembles sulking. Are you glowering? You might be glowering. Glowering is like sulking only scarier.

You better not be implying what I think you're implying.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.