Quotes About Interpretation

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

For me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

There are always many sides to the truth.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.