“The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.” — Pamela Cummins Copy Share Image
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song. — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role… — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because… — Richard Taverner Copy Share Image
We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
These were specific enablements given to certain believers for the purpose of authenticating or confirming God's Word when it was proclaimed in… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are good theological reasons to reject making authorial intention the goal of the interpretation of Scripture. First, we must recognize that… — Dale B. Martin Copy Share Image
“However, in ordinary life, one cannot live by such principles. Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They… — William Golding Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
