Lewis Carroll Quotes

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Thinking differently is my strength.

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

I prefer to listen to people who change their mind now and then.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.