Dunces Quotes

29 quotes by 23 authors

There is no dunce like a mature dunce. — George Santayana
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… — Clive James
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… — Robert Bellarmine
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything… — Donald Harington
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. — Daniel Tosh
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost… — Oliver Goldsmith
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All… — C.S. Lewis
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. — C.S. Lewis
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. — Isaac D'Israeli
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious… — C.S. Lewis
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… — Rajneesh
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — Jonathan Swift
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. — Charles Churchill
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages… — Charles Caleb Colton

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