C. S. Lewis Quotes

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Obvious to you is amazing to others.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

We must look a long time before we can see.

Make subtlety obvious.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.