Quotes About Interpretation

In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Tell the truth, but understand that it is not necessarily what happened," is one of the things she told him. "Every good story is a parable," is another.

I've read that madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance. A dead bird makes you cry, and so does a doorknob.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

What was that?' Wallander said. [Linda] 'Nothing.' 'That's funny. I could have sworn you were swearing.' 'I didn't say anything.' 'I have a strange daughter,' Wallander said to Lindman. 'She curses without even knowing it.'

Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.

Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.

slowly peel away all the extraneous layers. There are tracks and marks left at every crime scene, like shadows of the event itself. That's what you have to find.

The Eyes See Only What The Mind Is Prepared To Comprehend.

preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Consider what stuff history is made of, — that for the most part it is merely a story agreed on by posterity.

Not all books are as dull as their readers. –

The world is but a canvas to our imagination

The world is but a canvas for our imagination