Vladimir Nabokov

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

American Novelist

Ambrose Bierce

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.

American Journalist

Jean Baudrillard

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

French Sociologist

William Hazlitt

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

English Critic

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

French Writer

Alexander Pope

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

English Poet

George Savile

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

English Politician

Benjamin Franklin

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

American Politician

Samuel Johnson

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

English Writer

Warren Buffett

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

American Businessman

Used in informal, casual conversations, but could be offensive if not used among friends.

Colloquial Usage

It implies stupidity or foolishness, so be careful when using it to avoid offending someone.

Slightly Insulting

It doesn't mean the person's head is actually like a block of wood—just that they're being unwise or unthinking.

Non-literal Meaning

 the level of the brain so his brain is able to control this otherwise normal sneeze reflex and so he doesn't have it and he's able to pass these items into his nasal cavity performing the blockhead feat is truly a matter of

Blockhead

Colloquial Usage

Slightly Insulting

Non-literal Meaning

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