Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

Sometimes, I'm too smart for my own good.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.