C. S. Lewis Quotes

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The best vision is insight.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

To understand is to perceive patterns.