The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes

The Phantom Tollbooth Quote of the day

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?