Interpretation Quotes · Page 12

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

— Fred Hoyle

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

— Burton J. Hendrick

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

— Cornelius Van Til

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of…

— Oliver Stone

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

— Mike Svob

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Just because an interpretation is commonly held doesn’t mean it’s correct.”

— John Sailhamer

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do…

— Joel Sternfeld

I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of…

— Frank Moore Cross

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in…

— Erwin Schrodinger

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what…

— Walter E. Williams

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

— William Jones

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was…

— Harry Connick, Jr

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations)…

— Bill Crawford

I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So…

— Elie Wiesel

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of…

— Sean Penn

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to…

— Michael Bloomberg

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.…

— Thomas Aquinas

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing…

— Takeshi Kitano

With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the…

— Rajneesh

I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most…

— John C. McGinley

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have…

— Jill Lepore

“Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.”

— Tarun Sharma

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

— Carl Jung

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

— Anonymous

“But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what…

— George MacDonald

Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject. It's not an interpretation…

— George Deukmejian

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

— Harry Stack Sullivan

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

— Jean Genet

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

— Stella Maxwell

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

— Zygmunt Bauman

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore