A Quote by Charles Francis Richter

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

Charles Francis Richter

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Charlatans Earthquakes Fools Liars Only Predict

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Charles Francis Richter
American - Scientist
April 26, 1900 - September 30, 1985

There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We can't predict where a hurricane is going to be a month in advance.

Carrie Nugent

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Simon McBurney

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

Maimonides

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

Lionel

Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.

James McMurtry

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

Dan Hicks

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

Harold Bloom

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Thomas Sowell

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

Anton Chekhov

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Bodhidharma

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Bryant H. McGill

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

Mark Twain

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

You can never predict how market will react. You can model it. You may try to predict it, but weather and markets and risk, only God knows because only he has seen tomorrow.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

Jim Rohn

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