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Dull Quotes

Too much shine, can dull the soul

FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from Feb 17, 2014

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (1926).

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

"Mathematical Games". Scientific American (October 1973), later quoted in Roger B. Nelson "Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking" ("Introduction", p. 5), 1993.

What is known for certain is dull.

"I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier". Book by Igor F. Tsigelny, p. 314, 1998.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

"Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.