I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them. If we ever get out of here, I'm going to make sure to learn all about them.
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
Sve se na koncu svede na ništa.
It's completely logical, explained the Dodecahedron. The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that's all. Suppose you had something and added so...
For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to...
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't—and I don't care at all about where I'm not.- Alec
And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
Just follow that line forever, said the Mathemagician, and when you reach the end, turn left. There you'll find the land of Infinity, where the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest, and th...
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.- Humbug
There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he...
I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.
Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards. I didn’t know that words grew on trees, said Milo timidly. Where did you think they gre...
And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.
And remember, also...that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all...
Ali to je samo velika olovka, usprotivio se Uholaž i u nju kucnuo štapom za šetnju.To je istina, suglasio se Matemagičar, ali kad se jednom naučiš njome služiti, onda nema kraja onom što možeš učiniti...