Top 19 Blockheads Quotes & Sayings

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

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 rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

None but blockheads copy each other.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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 not go on prosperously here on earth.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

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

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

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.

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 blockheads.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.