Interpret

Famous quotes containing the word interpret:

“When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Those who dare to interpret God’s will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)