C. S. Lewis Quotes

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

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  Ovid
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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

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• We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
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• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

  

  Samantha Power
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• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
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  • Live
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• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
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• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• I want to just be what kids believe in.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Want

• I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Evil

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Power
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• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit.

  

  Anni-Frid Lyngstad ABBA
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• People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Children
  • Hope

• In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

  

  Jared Polis
  • World
  • Business
  • Missing

• But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Heart
  • Values

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
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• Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Wisdom