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Knowledge Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
- If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
- All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
- Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge…
- I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at…
- If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
- This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge…
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.…
- The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
- when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least…
- Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and…
- For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius