The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.