Charlatan Quotes

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.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

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 authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

A quick cure is a quack cure.

... a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

Nicolas Maduro is a fraud. He is a fake. He is a charlatan.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

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 hireling.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

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 worth reading.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.