Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
KURT VONNEGUTWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
-
-
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT -
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
KURT VONNEGUT -
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
KURT VONNEGUT -
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
KURT VONNEGUT -
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT -
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
KURT VONNEGUT -
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUT -
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
KURT VONNEGUT -
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
KURT VONNEGUT