36 quotes
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
on Language
"You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic."
on Life
"If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take."
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
on Identity
"The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
on Humor
"When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice."
on Philosophy
"Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!"
"What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same."
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
on Wisdom
"But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?"
"Tut tut child " said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
on Imagination
"Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards."
on Truth
"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
on Writing
"Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, '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."
"Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this."
on Hope
"It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others."
