Quacks Quotes

54 quotes by 49 authors

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
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
Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. — Ken Blanchard
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
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition. — Rudolf Virchow
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies — Francois Fenelon

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