Lewis Carroll Quotes

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

There is a lushness to how my mind works.

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.