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J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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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
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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical…
— Carl Sagan
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson…
— Emma Goldman
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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
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a…
— George Eliot
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
— Hugh Kingsmill
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I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit…
— Peter Drucker
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work…
— Leszek Kolakowski
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Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone…
— Emma Goldman
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The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.
— William J. Bernstein
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Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.
— Christopher Hitchens
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