Lewis Carroll Quotes

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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.200, Springer

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Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Lewis Carroll

People, Mind, Mouths

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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Lewis Carroll

Crazy, Reality, Different

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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

Life, Change, Time

Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

Lewis Carroll

Want, Matter, Path

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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, People, Mad

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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

Lewis Carroll

Limits, Faults, Action

Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Lewis Carroll

White, Long, Forever

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Book by Lewis Carroll, November 26, 1865.

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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Lewis Carroll

Mind, World, Hardest

Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.375, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

Lewis Carroll

Small Acts, Courtesy, Packs

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People who don't think shouldn't talk.

Lewis Carroll

Thinking, People

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Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Yoga, Wells

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.404, Delphi Classics

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Children, Creativity, Ignorance

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

Lewis Carroll

Believe, Mad, Wonderland

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To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Lewis Carroll

Helping Others, Giving, Goal

Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

Lewis Carroll

Eye

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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Lewis Carroll

Nice, Would Be, Wonderland

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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Relax, Wonderland

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Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

Lewis Carroll

Philosophical, Cat, Choices

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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Lewis Carroll

Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Lewis Carroll

Believe, Mind, Able

Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.28, Springer

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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

Lewis Carroll

Running, Math, Want

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I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

Lewis Carroll

Ifs

Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Lewis Carroll

Lost, Said

"Fictional character: The Mad Hatter". "Alice in Wonderland", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Lewis Carroll

Wisdom, Mathematical Logic, Ghouls

Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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Born: January 27, 1832
Died: January 14, 1898
Occupation: Writer
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