Thinking Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You are better than you think.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We…

— Kurt Vonnegut

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

— Kurt Vonnegut

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

— Kurt Vonnegut