C. S. Lewis Quotes

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 thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

C. S. Lewis

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• Being in water makes me relax instantly.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Me
  • Water
  • Being

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• I want to love life.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Best

• I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New York

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hobby

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Business
  • Experience

• I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Blood

• Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Ashamed
  • Confess

• The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

  

  Georg Buchner
  • World
  • God
  • Chaos

• 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 thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Words
  • Knowledge