Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.