Quotes About Dunce

#1. Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Friedrich Schiller

#2. The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

Lord Byron

#3. I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

Lisa Marie Presley

#4. There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

George Santayana

#5. A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

Peter Thiel

#6. As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

Clive James

#7. Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Alexander Pope

#9. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

William Cowper

#10. Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

Charles Churchill

#11. Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. Bad writing makes the reader feel like a dunce.

Steven Pinker

#12. Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

George Eliot

#13. The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

Daniel Tosh

#14. We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

Walter Kirn

#15. A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Rajneesh

#16. From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

Carol Loomis

#17. For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell

#18. I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.

Chautona Havig

#19. Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Franz Grillparzer

#20. Women have an infallible instinct for knowing when a man has fallen madly in love with them, especially when the male in question is both a complete dunce and a minor.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#21. The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

Alexander Theroux

#22. Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Charles Churchill

#23. The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Emma Goldman

#24. We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

Richard Peck

#25. Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Anne Frank

#27. Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

#28. In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,
he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

Thomas Carlyle

#29. At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

Dave Grohl

#30. There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

Robert Bellarmine

#31. Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#32. I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole