Interpretation Quotes

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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.

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

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

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.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

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

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.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

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

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.