Lewis Carroll Quotes

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

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Believe, Mad, Wonderland

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

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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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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.

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

Lewis Carroll

Nice, Would Be, Wonderland

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All that matters is what we do for each other.

Lewis Carroll

Matter

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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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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Lewis Carroll

Inspirational, Relax, Wonderland

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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll

Life, Success, Art

Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.13, Bibliolis Books

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Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
"In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

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Crazy, Cat, People

Lewis Carroll (2001). “CliffsComplete Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, Cliffs Notes

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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

Lewis Carroll

Hurt, Long, Effort

Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1478, Delphi Classics

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