This collection holds 17 caterpillars quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Lewis Carroll, Timothy Leary and Terence Mckenna.

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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

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