A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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 from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Jean Baudrillard

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile