Quacks Quotes
54 quotes by 49 authors
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic…
— Douglas Adams
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The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel…
— Sara Blakely
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
— Ken Blanchard
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
— Richard Dawkins
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Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in…
— Walter E. Williams
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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
— Rudolf Virchow
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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
— C.S. Lewis
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An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
— Robert Breault
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A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why,…
— P.B. Kerr
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Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never…
— Ian Shoales
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[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in…
— John B. S. Haldane
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills…
— Warren Buffett
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In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an…
— Thomas Sowell
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a…
— Richard Cushing
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
— John Dewey
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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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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
— Francois Fenelon
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