Dunces Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher…

— Henry David Thoreau

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

— Helen Keller

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

— Anonymous

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

— Robert M. Pirsig

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone…

— Marshall McLuhan

From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.

— Bertolt Brecht

He who is humble is able to master his senses to remain rational. He who is arrogance loses control over situations and become irrational.

— Nethwadzi Phumudzo

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks…

— William George Jordan

It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him.

— Mychal Thompson

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more…

— Anonymous