Quotes About Interpretation

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The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...

My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear.

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.

This is a word that is a pitfall to the most of us whether learned or unlearned. Probably it is the most indiscriminately used word in the language.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

Ms. Heller," said the man, "if you can hear me, say something, will you?" "What do you want, I'm shouting!" Lauren said at the top of her voice. "Now I see it," one of the female voices said. "Like she's trying to talk. I don't know what she said." "I think she said 'Ow.

Never write if you can speak, never speak if you can nod, never nod if you can wink.

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors

it is unfair to characterize the work of postmodernists as "bad writing," despite the fact that a lot of it is actually bad writing.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

The style is the thought itself.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Everything has its poetry. 94

The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.

When split-brain patients fabricate verbal (left hemisphere based) explanations for behaviors that were produced by the right hemisphere, the left hemisphere is generating explanations of behaviors produced by nonconscious systems and does so in the maintenance of a sense of self. That is, our behavior is an important way we come to know who we are. This is the essence of Gazzaniga's interpreter theory of consciousness (see Chapter 6).

Your conscious experiences are personal. They are yours, and could not exist without you. And a major fact that makes them personal is that they are experienced and interpreted through the lens of your memories. Conscious experiences, including experiences of fear and anxiety, are colored by memory.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Cinderpelt didn't have the same sensitivity to StarClan that other medicine cats have had; for example, she interpreted blades of burning grass as a warning that Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight would unite—fire and tiger—to destroy ThunderClan.