C. S. Lewis Quotes

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

People must be educated not only with accurate information but also with the aim of shaping new attitudes.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances that surround your character.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

Everything is educational.