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Best Thought Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself……
- We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
- The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
- Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather…
- I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and…
- A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,…
- As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you…
- The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
- The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
- The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the…
- The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
- Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
- You Too? I thought I was the only one.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one
- If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place…
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
More Thought Quotes
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold