Blockhead Quote by Anonymous

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

— Jean de la Bruyere

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How”

— David McCullough

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

— Warren Buffett

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

— Friedrich Schiller

For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or…

— Mary Astell

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

— Thomas Carlyle

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it…

— Moss Hart

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes…

— Jonathan Swift

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

— Thomas Chalmers