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

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

“You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.”

“It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.""You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

“I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?”

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”