Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 434 authors

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty… — Erwin Schrodinger
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. — Susan Sontag
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of… — Oliver Stone
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of… — Ginny Brown-Waite
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't… — Andy Warhol
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you… — Eberhard Weber
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. — Woodrow Wilson
Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We… — Muhammad Yunus
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation.… — Julian Baggini
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. — Lou Andreas-SalomÃ©
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to… — John F. Kennedy
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is… — Edward Said
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong. — Carter G. Woodson
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an… — Edith Wharton
There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open… — Elliot Perlman
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant… — Sam Harris
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? — Lawrence Durrell
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still… — Albert Einstein

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