Interpretations Quotes

121 quotes by 109 authors

I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So thatâ€™s the… — Jacque Fresco
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating… — Edwidge Danticat
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. — George Eliot
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use… — Albert Mackey
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. — Nathalie Sarraute
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a… — Deborah Tannen
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations,… — Mooji
What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach… — Yuna
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...… — James Clerk Maxwell
Thereâ€™s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. Itâ€™s a different perspective. It is a reflection as… — Ava DuVernay
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock… — Maria Popova
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human… — Saul Bellow
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because… — Roman Jakobson
There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it… — Aga Khan IV
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this… — Paul Ricoeur
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. — Paul Ricoeur
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the… — Margaret J. Wheatley
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' — Roger Scruton
Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations — Rad Hourani

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