C. S. Lewis Quotes

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Ignorance never settles a question.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.