Interpret

Famous quotes containing the word interpret:

“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)

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