Blockheads Quotes

34 quotes by 28 authors

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises… — Giacomo Casanova
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as… — Martin Luther
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead… — Prince William
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands… — H.G. Wells
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. — Friedrich Schiller
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads. — Benjamin Franklin
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. — Warren Buffett
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and… — Gustave Flaubert
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to… — Alexander Pope
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead… — Oscar Wilde
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit… — Diablo Cody
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not… — Lord Chesterfield
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators… — Karl Kraus
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do… — Martin Luther

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