Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.