Top 272 Interpretations Quotes & Sayings

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!

We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

I prefer the 4-2-3-1 formation and stick to it but have my own interpretations.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.

All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set a Bible on a table and ask it to resolve their differences. In order for the Scripture to function as an authority, it must be read and interpreted by someone. According to "solo" Scriptura, that someone is each individual, so ultimately, there are as many final authorities as there are human interpreters.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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.

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

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

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.

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

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.

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.

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

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

I am an interpreter of interpretations

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

'Sholay' can be given so many interpretations. I have seen this film so many times since the time I was a kid that I think that there could be 50 lovely interpretations to this film. Different filmmakers can give it so many interpretations, as it's a lovely film.

As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes the work more challenging.

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

As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.