Interpret

Famous quotes containing the word interpret:

“When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 16:2,3.

“Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“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)