Quotes About Interpretation

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

I used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the dark again.

If she eats garlic during dinner, does it mean she isn't planning on kissing me?";

Mrs. Rahman. It was impossible to know whether Mokta

No, certainly he didn't. Not actually. He couldn't, not very well, since he didn't know. But he would have. It amounts to the same thing. And I'm sure it was just as unpleasant.

nodded, "A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

The word "personnel" may seem superfluous, but Army regulations prohibit brevity and common sense.

It's getting harder to tell the difference between art and vandalism.

Tom Walsh doesn't exactly talk down to people, but there's a thin line between him stating the obvious and him thinking he's giving you new information.

O artista tem que ser gênio para alguns e imbecil para outros. Se puder ser imbecil para todos, melhor ainda.

Everybody talks to me about 'P.M.s,'" complained Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn to Inspector Fox on Monday afternoon, "and I never know whether they mean post-mortem or Prime Minister. Really, it's very difficult when you happen to be involved with both.

We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.

when set in its proper historical context, the present time appears less unnervingly unprecedented and more familiar.

For some readers, I dare say, the word 'institution' still conjures up a Victorian vision of lunatic asylums: poor old Niall, he's in an institution now. That is not the kind of institution I mean. I am talking about, for example, political institutions, like the British Parliament or the American Congress. When we talk about

Niall Ferguson

In all countries there was a torrent of what Paul Fussell has called 'high diction': a friend became a 'comrade', a horse became a 'steed', the enemy became the 'foe'.

unintelligible because the print was so small.

Very few economists foresaw the crisis, but a great many have tried retrospectively to explain it, generating a large literature of distinctly mixed quality.

how far history is distorted by the dubious benefit of hindsight.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

And although it appears that the World has become effeminate and Heaven disarmed, yet this arises without doubt more from the baseness of men who have interpreted our Religion in accordance with Indolence and not in accordance with Virtu. For if they were to consider that it (our Religion) permits the exaltation and defense of the country, they would see that it desires that we love and honor her (our country), and that we prepare ourselves so that we can be able to defend her.

Cada uno ve lo que pareces ser; pero pocos comprenden lo que eres realmente

Ognuno vede quello che tu pari, pochi sentono quello che tu se

in Hebrew, where the word for "old," zaken, is an acronym formed from the expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.