Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

C. S. Lewis

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

C. S. Lewis

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 we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

C. S. Lewis

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 they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

C. S. Lewis

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

C. S. Lewis

The absent are easily refuted.

C. S. Lewis

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

C. S. Lewis

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

John Cornyn

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied,

Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Tom Hatch

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Chris Landsea

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

Daniel Cohen

When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear.