Quacks Quotes - Page 2

• Las bellas coquetas son charlatanes del amor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love Is

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• "Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

  Walter Scott

  Time, Fate, Drs

  Walter Scott (2016). “Peveril of the Peak, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.26”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Self, Medicine

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Raw Materials, Dupes

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

  Meir Shalev

  Art, Creativity, Science

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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 our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Skulls, Childhood, Parent

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• Un optimista es alguien que piensa que si camina como un pato y grazna como un pato, es el pájaro azul de la felicidad.

  Robert Breault

  Ducks, Optimism, Figures

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• Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liars, World, Patient

  Theodore Diller, Benjamin Franklin (1912). “Franklin's Contribution to Medicine: Being a Collection of Letters Written by Benjamin Franklin Bearing on the Science and Art of Medicine and Exhibiting His Social and Professional Intercourse with Various Physicians of Europe and America”

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• The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Democracy, Ridiculous

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.281, Vintage

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• Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Thinking, Doctors, Patient

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• 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.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Believe, Mean, Deceit

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• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  Keith Olbermann

  Men, Politics, Shade

  Keith Olbermann (2008). “Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values”, p.11, Random House

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• Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Doe, Vain

  Samuel Johnson (1839). “Dictionary of the English Language ...”

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Generations, Reason, Prophet

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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 conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

  John Dewey

  Luck, Degenerates, Doe

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.198, 谷月社

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• Mira a ese ánade real mientras flota en el lago; ¡mira su cabeza elevada brillando con verde esmeralda, sus ojos ámbar destellando en la luz! Incluso a esta distancia, te ha marcado, y sospecha que no tienes buena voluntad hacia él, porque ve que tienes un arma, y muchas veces se ha asustado por su informe, o el de algún otro. El pájaro cauteloso mete las patas bajo el cuerpo, salta sobre él, abre las alas y, con fuertes graznidos, se despide de ti.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Spring, Farewell

  John James Audubon (1835). “Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.”, p.165

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• Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

  Alexander Fleming

  Dark, Years, Age

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• I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

  Dick Cavett

  Psychics, Laughing, Interest

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Los grandes maestros de moral nunca introducen nuevas moralidades: son los charlatanes y los chiflados los que lo hacen .... El verdadero trabajo de todo maestro de moral es hacernos volver, una y otra vez, a los viejos y sencillos principios que todos estamos tan ansiosos por no ver; como hacer volver a un caballo a la valla que se ha negado a saltar o hacer volver a un niño al bocado de su lección que quiere eludir.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Horse, Jobs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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• No graznes como un pato, vuela como un águila.

  Ken Blanchard

  Motivational, Leadership, Ambition

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• A veces uno tiene la impresión de que las meras palabras "socialismo" y "comunismo" atraen hacia ellas con fuerza magnética a todos los bebedores de zumos de frutas, nudistas, calzadores de sandalias, maníacos sexuales, cuáqueros, curanderos, pacifistas y feministas de Inglaterra.

  George Orwell

  Sex, Fruit Juice, Feminist

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• Pero por misteriosa que sea la naturaleza , por ignorante que sea el médico, por imperfecto que sea el estado actual de la ciencia física , el patrocinio y el éxito de los charlatanes y curanderos son infinitamente más maravillosos que los de los hombres de ciencia honrados y laboriosos y sus cuidadosos experimentos.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Doctors, Ignorant

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.149, Lulu.com

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• La nación bendita por encima de todas las naciones es aquella en la que el genio cívico del pueblo hace la salvación día a día, mediante actos sin pintoresquismo externo; hablando, escribiendo, votando razonablemente; golpeando la corrupción rápidamente; por el buen temperamento entre los partidos; por el pueblo reconociendo a los hombres verdaderos cuando los ve, y prefiriéndolos como líderes a los partidarios rabiosos y a los charlatanes vacíos.

  William James

  War, Party, Writing

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.

  Michael Behe

  Strong, Simple, Ducks

  "Design for Living" by Michael Behe, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2005.

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• There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Medicine, Age

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