1.
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
Daniel Tosh
2.
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
John Kennedy Toole
3.
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
7.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper
9.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
11.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
C. S. Lewis
12.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Ambrose Bierce
14.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
Ivan Turgenev