Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to…

— Blaise Pascal

Another day goes by and time reveals it importance.

— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi

“Time reveals character.”

— Alan Cohen

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

— Simonides of Ceos

Whatever man thinks of manifests to the real, the plan is to wake up cause time reveals.

— Nas

“I find the right ones, but time reveals who truly stays right.”

— Marion Bekoe

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver