"What I like about experience is that..." - Quote by C S Lewis
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
More by C S Lewis
“Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.”
“Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”
“There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.”
More on Experience
“Memories just get richer with time.”
“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).”
“Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life”
More on Truth
“Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.”
“isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.”
“Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.”