Wisdom Quote by C.S. Lewis — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.”

“If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly as foolish as that.”

“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”

“We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.”

“Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.”

“Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”

“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.”

“You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.”

“Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.”

“Yesterday I was clever,”

“Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kālāmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.”

“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”