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Wisdom Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
- You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man…
- Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
- The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
- The absent are easily refuted.
- Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
- Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
- Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
- It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
- In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where…
- If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could…
- If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
- Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real…
- Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. ...…
- Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly…
More Wisdom Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of… — Frederick Lenz
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Unknown Author