“Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The hoodlum-occultist is “sociopathic” enough to, see through the conventional charade, the social mythology of his species. “They’re all sheep,” he thinks.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image