The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. — Lou Andreas-Salomé Copy Share Image
We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.” — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it. — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The issue is not what you may be facing, rather your interpretation of it. Always think in a positive light to create… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other… — William Powell Copy Share Image
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The theological meaning of events in history is always filled with ambiguity, whether their significance is supported by centuries of tradition or… — Robert Louis Wilken Copy Share Image
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
“A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The “play”… — Grant R. Osborne Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
