Lewis Carroll Famous Quotes
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"
"'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'"
"'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end then stop.'"
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll Quotations
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
"To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish."
Heraclitus
"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat."
Sir Julian Huxley
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Danish proverb
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."
Clive Staples Lewis
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."
Mark Twain
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire