Blockheads Quote by Karl Kraus Download Open image “An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time” — Karl Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blockheads Depth Ifs Ignorance Illusion
Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective. — Rex Brandt Copy Share Image
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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… — Prince William Copy Share Image
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art. — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
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,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
