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?

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

C. S. Lewis

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Abraham Lincoln

I am nothing, truth is everything.

Adolf Hitler

The truth is the best propaganda.

Adrienne Rich

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Cornel West

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Dorothea Dix

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Donald Trump

The truth is, the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants or however many there may be - and honestly we've been hearing that number for years. It's always 11 million. Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million. It could be 30 million. They have no idea what the number is.

William Shakespeare

In jest, there is truth.

William Shakespeare

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Annie Dillard

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Elizabeth I

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Jean de la Bruyere

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

George Herbert

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Emily Dickinson

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Helen Rowland

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.