Taken Literally Quotes
- An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz
- On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us,… — Slavoj Žižek
- Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I… — Anita Moorjani
- Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course,… — Samuel Reshevsky
- The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead… — Mel White