Dunce Quote by William Cowper

“I... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds.”

— Jim Butcher

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…

— Walter Kirn

“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

When the teacher tells you you're a dunce and you're never going to amount to anything, that sticks with you.

— Jay Blades

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

— George Santayana

“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The…

— Maureen Brady

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Daniel Tosh

“A brick could be placed in an empty circular room, so that when you tell a dunce to go stand in the corner, he…

— Jarod Kintz

“           •   On dunces: in the old days, if you were found out to be a dunce on any given subject you would have been asked…

— Patric Juillet

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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…

— Franz Grillparzer