"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people……" — C.S. Lewis

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…

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More Cowardly Quotes

This quote is filed under Cowardly Quotes, one of 222 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,… — Conrad Black
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too… — Napoleon Bonaparte
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of… — Jean de la Bruyere
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp… — Robert Burns
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and… — George Stillman Hillard
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only… — Oswald Chambers
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten… — Adolf Hitler
The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be… — Joseph Simmons
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone

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