A Quote by Jack McDevitt

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

Jack McDevitt

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Jack McDevitt
American - Author
Born: April 14, 1935

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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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 though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

Martin Luther

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None but blockheads copy each other.

William Blake

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Michel de Montaigne

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

Robert Southey

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 of my language.

Karl Kraus

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Jonathan Swift

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 oratory.