Quotes About Charlatanism

#1. Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.

Sam Kean

#2. Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Eric Hoffer

#5. Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#6. A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

Eric Hoffer

#7. Thought involves a little charlatanism.

Julien Torma

#8. The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

William Osler

#9. People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

David Chase

#10. Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

Laura Whitcomb

#11. The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

Emma Goldman

#12. Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can't wait to put on when the weather starts to turn.

Amber Le Bon

#13. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#14. He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.

Shirley Jackson

#15. She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.

Anthony Doerr

#16. I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?

John Barnes