Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.