Charlatans Quotes
54 quotes by 47 authors
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
— Anton Chekhov
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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
— Victor Hugo
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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 insight wants to…
— Elbert Hubbard
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to…
— Denis Diderot
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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 of those in…
— Carl Sagan
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Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,…
— Michio Kaku
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What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who…
— Michael Buerk
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Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal…
— Dominique Fernandez
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
— Bertrand Russell
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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 to the visionless…
— 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 is the quack…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
— Charles Francis Richter
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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 charlatan or 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 into a headline.
— Peter Drucker
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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The…
— Anton Chekhov
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Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make…
— Simon McBurney
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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 is probably not…
— Leszek Kolakowski
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There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed…
— Frank Schaeffer
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