Quotes about Interpretation
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.
— Elie Wiesel
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
Reality is an interpretation.
— Deepak Chopra
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
— Leland Ryken
When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
— Max Lucado
You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.
— John Maxwell
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
— Jennifer Aniston
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
— Emily Bronte
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
— Emily Bronte
In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
— Epictetus