(208 quotes found)
“There is no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretation of phenomena”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.”
Ambrose Bierce
“When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head: / And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.”
Bible
“We are headed for a Katrina-induced soft patch, but I would not interpret this as the early warning of a recession.”
Nariman Behravesh
“And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.”
“I interpreted data differently. ... Truth is the best defense. I'm not concerned in the least.”
Ward Churchill
“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.”
John von Neumann
“I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.”
Will Kemp
“What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?”
Antonin Scalia
