Quotes on Bokonon

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.