C. S. Lewis Top 10 Quotes


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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis (The Abolition of Man, 1943)

9

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C. S. Lewis

8

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

7

We read to know that we are not alone.

C. S. Lewis

6

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis (The Four Loves, 1960)

5

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one.

C. S. Lewis (The Four Loves, 1960)

4

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C. S. Lewis (The Unquiet Grave, 1944)

3

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, 1942)

2

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from; my country, the place where I ought to have been born.

C. S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, 1956)

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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C. S. Lewis Biography

Born: November 29, 1898
Died: November 22, 1963

C. S. Lewis was a British novelist and writer. He is most commonly known for his work of fictions. The most notable one being " The Chronicles of Narnia"

Notable Works

The Problem of Pain (1940)
Space Trilogy (1938 - 1945)
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950 - 1956)
Till We Have Faces (1958)
The Four Loves
(1960)
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