Lewis Carroll Quotes

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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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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 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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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.

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Mind, World, Hardest

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

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

Lewis Carroll

Believe, Mad, Wonderland

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

Lewis Carroll

Eye

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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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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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People who don't think shouldn't talk.

Lewis Carroll

Thinking, People

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All that matters is what we do for each other.

Lewis Carroll

Matter

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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll

Long, Giving, Inspire

Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.927, Race Point Pub

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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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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Lewis Carroll

Poison, Wonderland, Bottles

Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.16, Branden Books

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Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Lewis Carroll

Book, Mean, Use

Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Lewis Carroll

Mistake, Philosophical, Genius

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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

Lewis Carroll

People, Way, Knows

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

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