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.

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut ( VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty years; further works have been published since his death.

More quotations from Kurt Vonnegut

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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

—Kurt Vonnegut

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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

—Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan

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There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

—Kurt Vonnegut in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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More quotations tagged with “effort”

Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

—Albert Einstein

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The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

—Pierre Corneille

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

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Love shouldn’t make you feel like that. It should be as natural as breathing. It should happen between two people because it grew there out of something beautiful.

—A. Meredith Walters in Cloud Walking

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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.