Quotes About Interpretation

I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

El idiota suele ser buen lector, pero generalmente, de malos libros. No lee de izquierda a derecha, como los occidentales, ni de derecha a izquierda, como los orientales. Se las ha arreglado para leer de izquierda a izquierda

Non c'è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

He picked something out of everything he read.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes." "But the ropes are on stack 2." "I meant metaphorically.

La Chiesa maestra non inventa la sua dottrina; ella è teste, è custode, è interprete, è tramite, e per quanto riguarda le verità proprie del messaggio cristiano essa si può dire conservatrice, intransigente; e a chi la sollecita di rendere più facile, più relativa ai gusti della mutevole mentalità dei tempi la sua fede, risponde con gli Apostoli: "Non possumus, non possiamo (Act 4,20)

I shall not today attempt further to define [pornography]… But I know it when I see it; and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Our species is gifted where it comes to interpreting doctrine so as to justify whatever one wants to do.

she'd say there must be something in Leviticus against mixing so many metaphors.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

But he knew he'd started reading books on Sri Lanka, because he needed to explain things, to himself and others -- because if that world, his world over there had ever made sense, it seemed far more confused when questioned from outside.

Hidup sungguh sangat sederhana. Yang hebat-hebat hanya tafsirannya.

Setiap tulisan merupakan dunia tersendiri, yang terapung-apung antara dunia kenyataan dan dunia impian.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Tidak semua kebenaran dan kenyataan perlu dikatan pada seseorang atau pada siapapun.

Art is nothing but perceptions and horizons of feeling.

Exploring an aspect of the truth will be re- measuring the analogy.