Interpret

Famous quotes containing the word interpret:

“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)

“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)

“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)