top of page

"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Knowledge, Future, Hope, Uncertainty

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."

Exlpore more Knowledge quotes

"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Breathing, Learning, Never

"A library is chamber of treasures."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Library, Chamber, Treasures, Books

"In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, History, Ecology, Reading, Pleasure

"By reading, we will know the minds of great soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Reading, Minds, Great, Souls

"Books are more to treasure than cars."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Books, Treasure, More, Cars

"The principles you know determines what you get."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Knowledge, Principles, Results, Understanding

"Ignorance is the darkest depths."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Ignorance, Darkness, Depths, Unknown

"The greatest discovery is self-discovery."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Discovery, Self, Awareness

"How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Knowledge, Hate, Perception, Understanding

"Knowledge will help you to solve any problem."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Knowledge, ProblemSolving, Wisdom, Growth

Explore more quotes by C. S. Lewis

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."

"Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."

"I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began."

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

"I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."

"In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity."

"Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age, to have been shattered by the most brutal and devastating war yet known." (51) Part (McGrath suggests) of Lewis's well-documented search for truth and meaning, that search that ultimately led him to Christianity, emerges from the desire to make sense of his traumatic experience in ways that satisfied him spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually."

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair."

"Damsel," said the Prince, bowing to her. "You are of a high courage, and therefore, I doubt not, you come of a noble blood in your own world."

bottom of page