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

Quotern

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

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Copy

Recommended for You ...

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Copy Detail

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Copy Detail

It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Copy Detail

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Copy Detail

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Copy Detail