Inspirational Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image “Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Power Tests Translate Understood
Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. — Dr Wade Noble Copy Share Image
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
