Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

• Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Ignorance, Environmental

• He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Daughter, Children, Ignorance

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.92, Penguin

• The complicated futility of ignorance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ignorance, Complicated, Futility

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.92, Penguin

• ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ignorance, Library, Foyers

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.19, Penguin

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