Quotes About Interpretation

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.

There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

treat measurements as fundamental, wave functions collapse when they are observed, don't ask questions about what's going on behind the scenes

there's three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I can only give you mine.

Remember—there's only one God, everything else is metaphor.

Taking the metaphors literally gives them a free pass to duck out of the real heavy lifting.

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All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.

Picasso said "good artists copy but great artists steal.

Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them." -W. I. B. Beveridge

What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free.

imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious

good artists copy but great artists steal.

Failing to comprehend the original meaning of these documents guarantees that the original message will be lost in translation and maybe one day even deemed outmoded and irrelevant in modern society.

There was nothing to see but in my mind's eye I could see everything, because she had supplied the ancient cinema of this place.

The Bible is like a particular music, you cannot always catch the tune of it.

People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all.

The truth is to be found in every single sentence on every single page, but you've skimmed over it

Strogo uzevši, oko je samo produžena alatka našeg istinskog vizualnog osjetilnog organa - mozga, koji nikada ne dopušta da promatramo stvarnost, nego samo njezinu interpretaciju.

Die Hegelliteratur stellt Hegel gern als jemanden dar, der ganz eigene Ideen und Meinungen hat. Das ist nicht nur falsch; Hegel hätte es peinlich gefunden.

They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.

In the end, everything isn't always as black-and-white as the markings on a Dalmatian puppy. Even for an evil thing like Cruella De Vil.