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Quotes about Interpretation

Never judge a work of art by its defects.
— Washington Allston
We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.
— Denzel Washington
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.
— Donald Trump
If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.
— DL Moody
Tryphena?" "It's Greek. Means 'delicate.' Brin came across it the other day somewhere in the Bible,
— Steven James
Flowers are the hieroglyphics of angels. Loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
— Steven James
When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.
— Tim LaHaye
A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.
— Miroslav Volf
You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments—the elements of thought—until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
— Mortimer Adler
Find and interpreting the important words.
— Mortimer Adler
Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.
— Mortimer Adler