The Phantom Tollbooth

"It is not just learning things that is important. It is learning what to do with what you learn."

"The most dangerous place is where you stop thinking."

"Knowledge is only useful if you know how to use it."

"The greatest journey is the one that takes you home again."

"You see, nobody likes to be confused or to have things misunderstood."

"The very fact that you want to understand shows that you already possess great wisdom."

"It takes determination and hard work to rescue something valuable."

"There's always another adventure waiting somewhere."

"Without variety and surprise, life loses its zest."

"You must choose what you want to believe."

"It makes more sense to try and fail than to fail to try."

"Nothing is more important than understanding the thing you're looking for."

"It's not just the answers that matter, it's the questions you ask."

"Believe anything and you'll believe everything."

"The fact is that if you think impossible things, you begin to believe them."

"Without adventures, you'd never realize what you were capable of."

"Every time you learn something new, you deepen your understanding of what you already know."

"But have you ever heard them sing?"

"The world is a wonderfully interesting place."

"The problem is not what you've done, but that you expect to be done with it at the moment of completion."

"Numbers are terribly important."

"Ignorance is a far more terrible fate than stupidity."

"It makes no difference whether you arrive at the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time."

"You can never be too careful with words."

"Why, you'd think I'd committed a crime."

"The real problem is that the Mathemagician and the King of Dictionopolis can't agree on anything."

"Because you might see something valuable."

"It's not always easy to be brave."

"A person's eyes are always in the right place."

"Words are such wonderful things when used properly."