Interpretation Quotes

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

Let me hear your body talk.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.