Best 174 quotes in «interpretation quotes» category

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

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

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

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

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

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

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

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.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought or interpretation.

A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy a much greater autonomy than we usually think, and are able to take initiatives unknown both to the writer and the reader. When characters have their own will, their own autonomy, it gives the literary universe a greater internal mobility; it also makes the texts through which we view this world all the more open and incomplete.

A lot of people live miserably not because their lives are worse than others, but because their repeated negative interpretations of their experiences bring greater pain to their minds than their physical problems.

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality.

Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances. ("Trompe le pied.")

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.