Quotes About Interpretation

los hombres no nacieron para «suponer» nada ni para entender «las indirectas», mientras que las mujeres se especializan en ellas.

Lo determinante que tienes que comprender como varón, es que cuando la mujer te hace una pregunta indirecta, no está comenzando a juzgarte, sino que el juicio ya concluyó y resultaste claramente condenado, solo ha venido a comunicártelo de manera indirecta para que cuando reacciones, ella pueda comprobar que sentenció en forma correcta.

Estimados caballeros, por nuestra salud mental y emocional, debemos saber que ellas no hablan como nosotros, nunca quieren decir lo que están diciendo, y entenderlas lleva algunos años de entrenamiento; es casi como aprender otro idioma.

Ce n'est qu'avec la nuance qu'on peut avancer. Je tiens la nuance pour la forme la plus persuasive qui soit, et parfois la plus subversive. Ne pas mettre tout dans le même panier est devenu une rareté qui confine, malheureusement peut-être, à l'originalité.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

The artwork is just the settings, or the other characters. You have to make the plot yourself.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

You don't believe in evil," she said slowly. "For you everything is just a misunderstanding.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

My trick was to use a different kind of average each time, the word "average" having a very loose meaning. It is a trick commonly used, sometimes in innocence but often in guilt, by fellows wishing to influence public opinion or sell advertising space. When you are told that something is an average you still don't know very much about it unless you can find out which of the common kinds of average it is—mean, median, or mode.

graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less.

Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense.

My trick was to use a different kind of average each time, the word "average" having a very loose meaning. It is a trick commonly used, sometimes in innocence but often in guilt, by fellows wishing to influence public opinion or sell advertising space. When you are told that something is the average you still don't know very much about it unless you can find out which of the common kinds of average it is- mean, median, or mode.

Permitting statistical treatment and the hypnotic presence of numbers and decimal points to befog causal relationships is little better than superstition.

What comes full of virtue from the statistician's desk may find itself twisted, exaggerated, oversimplified, and distorted-through-selection by salesman, public-relations expert, journalist, or advertising copywriter.

Now the mental test of any variety is one of the prime voodoo fetishes of our time, so you may have to argue a little to find out the results of the tests;

In hermeneutics, this phenomenon is called preunderstanding—the understanding one has about a subject before researching it, or the understanding one has about what a text is probably saying before one begins to study it.5

Notice that Tabor assumes Jesus couldn't have been resurrected. He was simply reburied by some unknown figure, and the idea that he was resurrected inexplicably emerged later.

In fact, what is amazing about this find is that scholars of every stripe—conservative Christians, liberal Christians, believers in Judaism, and secular Jewish scholars—agreed en masse that the special had missed the mark and hadn't come close to making its case.

Many, if not most, theological liberal scholars have backgrounds as fundamentalists or evangelicals.

One story is Christianity; the other is best described as Jesusanity. It is an important difference, because Jesus is a very distinct figure in each story and, as a result, often inspires people in quite diverse ways.

However, the documentary reveals how far people will go to try to make Christianity into Jesusanity;

First, the changes they were experiencing made more and more evident a rigid system of interpreting the Bible, a system that they were quickly outgrowing. So quickly, indeed, that once the dam broke, once they could no longer contain their reading of the Bible within the framework of fundamentalism, there was a flood—and so they moved on. Second

Darrell L. Bock