Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over ag

Summary

This quote suggests that many individuals are inclined to ignore or dismiss information unless it provides some form of entertainment, humor, fear, or the potential for financial gain. The speaker shares their personal experience of teaching and how they repeatedly observed that people often prioritize information that offers immediate gratification or tangible benefits while disregarding facts that are deemed uninteresting or irrelevant to their immediate needs or desires.

Topics

Education

By Kurt Vonnegut

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Humor Funny

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters b

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Adaptability

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wide

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Imagination

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's th

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Failure

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; s

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

Young Adult

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

Life Work

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profit

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Peace

We know ourselves so little, that many think they are about

We know ourselves so little, that many think they are about to die when they are well, and many think they are well when they are near death...

Death

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth Children

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom

The grace of God, says Luther, is like a flying summer showe

The grace of God, says Luther, is like a flying summer shower. It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Alexander Maclaren

Grace