It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks.… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy,… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image