Quotes About Interpretation

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

Could the word 'iron' be the root from which 'irony' is derived?

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.

Ceci tuera cela

In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.

Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read

Se per caso capiva che la sua infermità si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondità presso alcuni, per imbecillità presso altri. In ambedue i casi l'onore della magistratura era salvo, perchè un giudice può essere benissimo profondo o imbecille a suo piacere, ma sordo no.

She read aloud, as she understood better that way. In reading aloud you assume authority for what you are reading. There are people who read very loudly, and who appear to be giving their word of honor for what they are reading.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

Todos los actos humanos tienen dos caras!

When the eye sees black, the heart sees trouble.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." —ANAÏS NIN

They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other.

Las palabras tenían importancia.

mouth; Elsa understood. Saying these

so that he could hear the things she wasn't saying and understand that she was with him.

Remember that you control what you choose to believe in," I said. Anyone could look at our farm lives and see toil and squalor, or look at the same lives and see purpose, abundance, and joy. Same plot points, different story. "Very different things can be true simultaneously, and choosing the one with the better narrative is often extremely helpful.

Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are the little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our chaotic world.

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.

Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don't be stupid. "Shall we say, then," he wrote about Genesis, "there was such a sense of hearing in that formless and shapeless creation, whatever it was, to which God thus uttered a sound when He said, 'Let there be light'? Let such absurdities have no place in our thoughts.

If you read, you'll judge.