Quotes About Interpretation

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

The power of art is the power of truth.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.