Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill 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
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley 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
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Know all ritual, ceremony, and conditions to be arbitrary (you have yourself to please): in the end, they are just a hindrance… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
