C. S. Lewis Quotes About Experience

• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Numbers, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

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