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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. C. S. Lewis
wisdom holy-places burning
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
wisdom thinking differences
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
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. C. S. Lewis
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. C. S. Lewis
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted. C. S. Lewis
wisdom gaps different
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
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? C. S. Lewis
knowledge last men merely passions
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last Chamfort
knowledge people
People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise. Michael Klim
knowledge
Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences Luigi Pirandello
knowledge players silly suggest
Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it. Maurice Cheeks
knowledge
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. Bernard Beckett
knowledge talking may
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell
knowledge inference knows
Whatever we know without inference is mental. Bertrand Russell
knowledge historical elements
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other. Bertrand Russell
knowledge science perception
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. Bertrand Russell
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235, Joseph Farrell
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. Carl Sandburg
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. Carl Sandburg
literature wonder puzzled
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. Carl Sandburg
literature guidance enough
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. Carl Sandburg
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill