Lewis Carroll Quotes

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Lewis Carroll

• Believe
• Mind
• Muscles

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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  

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• People believe what they want to believe.

  

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• I believe in God. God created the world.

  

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• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

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• You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

  

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• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

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• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  

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• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

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• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

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• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

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• The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

  

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• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

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• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

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• Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

  

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• No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

  

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• Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

  

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• One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

  

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• Why then, if these books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book, that is thus early impressed, lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

  

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• The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

  

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• Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

  

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• Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

  

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• If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Muscles