Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich,

Summary

This quote suggests that facts are only valued or embraced if they have the ability to evoke emotions like humor or fear, or if they can bring some material benefit, such as wealth. It reflects a mindset that prioritizes impact, entertainment, and personal gain over the pursuit of truth and knowledge for its own sake. The quote highlights a dismissive attitude towards facts that don't serve these specific purposes.

Topics

Funny

By Kurt Vonnegut

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Man Sacrifice Friend You Wrong Who

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Confidence

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Character

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Failure

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they b

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

Life

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characte

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Movies

Truth in science is always determined from observational fac

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

Truth Science

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriousl

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Sympathy

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Power

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune hi

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare

Poetry Nature Plays As You Like It Amiens

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our fa

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Children