Quotes About Interpretation

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Each man creates god in his own image.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

I beg your pardon? Robson says. One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.