Here's to the charlatans, the pretenders, the pawns and…

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

— Harold Bloom

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria.…

— Emma Goldman

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a…

— Peter Drucker

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of…

— Stephen Fry

“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed…

— Neal Stephenson

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of…

— Emma Goldman

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there…

— Chaim Potok

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…

— Simon McBurney

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I…

— Simon McBurney

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I…

— Peter Ackroyd

The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along…

— Jay Michaelson

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true,…

— Richard Dawkins