Data Quote by Edward Said

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

— Walter Benjamin

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce

“The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the ideal of…

— Andrew Louth

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the…

— Milton Friedman

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

— Anonymous

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to…

— Hans Sloane

“Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit”

— Kandathil Sebastian

“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a denial of…

— Peter A. Lillback

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick

“the point is that the only thing that blocks those interpretations is not the semantic content but simply the fact that you have a…

— John Rogers Searle

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

— Michel de Montaigne