The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding
– Donald Davidson
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- All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement. – Karen KimseyHouse
- Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it. – Roshan Sharma
- The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow. – Chuck Wachtel
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
- If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation). – Israelmore Ayivor
- Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi
- It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. – Donald Miller
- The aim of literature … is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. – Donald Barthelme
- I have absolutely no regrets in life except regrets for the things I didn’t do when I had the chance ~ Donald Pillai – Donald Pillai
- Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai – Donald Pillai
- She smiled smugly. -œWe came to an agreement, the duck and I. – Cassandra Clare
- The IGAD-Plus’s compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby. – Duop Chak Wuol
- But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That’s Capitalism! – Matt Groening
- As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith. – Billy Graham
- Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology. – Zaman Ali
- Power is the sum total of the wills of the m???, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses. – Leo Tolstoy
- Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts. – Tony Curl
- Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. – Stephen King
- There are many afterlife ideas and little agreement on what it may be. – Darrel Ray
- Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us. – Paul Gitwaza
- We don’t own life, we live under a rental agreement which can be terminated at anytime without notice. – Will Leamon
- Conflict is just another chance for agreement. – Ken Poirot
- I find that being considerate of others and keeping what I say and what I do in agreement makes for a great night’s sleep. – Steve Maraboli
- I find that being considerate of others and keeping what I say and what I do in agreement makes for a great night’s sleep. – Steve Maraboli
- Silence isn’t always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care. – Joyce Rachelle
- Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click I agree. – Eyden I
- If you’re committed, that just means you’re in agreement your undertaking could be your ticket to the asylum. – Todd Day
- Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. – DT Max
- [C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50) – JeanYves Leloup
- The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain. – William Goldman
- Part of the artist’s job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional. – Sally Mann
- Wise people listen to your words. Learned people listen to their interpretation of your words. – Dr Asoka Jinadasa
- That’s the beauty and the curse of the ‘engrafted word’… it all comes down to interpretation. – Amy Marie
- If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. – Mary Norris
- There is no one-size-fits-all in communication-”everyone’s interpretation of what what you say and how you say it is different. – Terry a ONeal
- This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation. – Alan de Jager
- A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. – Rebecca Solnit