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• The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and… — Elbert Hubbard
• If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical… — Carl Sagan
• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman
• 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
• There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a… — George Eliot
• A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill
• I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit… — Peter Drucker
• A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work… — Leszek Kolakowski
• Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut
• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman
• The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell. — William J. Bernstein
• Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan. — Christopher Hitchens

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