Interpretations Quotes

121 quotes by 109 authors

There are no facts, only interpretations. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about… — Talcott Parsons
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. — Manuel Puig
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
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
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,… — George Eliot
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel… — Barry Lopez
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded… — Sam Harris
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. — Edward Said
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit… — Bryce Courtenay
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not… — Stephen King
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… — Hannah Arendt
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just… — Alison Bechdel
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. — Michel de Montaigne
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. — James Joyce

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