C. S. Lewis Quotes

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.

Reading brings us unknown friends

I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

We read books to find out who we are.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.