Quotes About Interpretation

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Truth is such a subjective thing.

words can never get at the truth.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.