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Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. -- Charles Spurgeon
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. -- Pablo Picasso
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other -- Emile M. Cioran
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. -- William Blake
Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter. -- Sam Altman
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. -- Nathaniel Branden
I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. -- Nick Cave
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature. -- James Delingpole
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter. -- Thomas Jefferson
He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter. -- Han Fei
Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to. -- Jeff Jarvis
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. -- Joseph Brodsky
There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality -- Peter Tosh
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need. -- C. S. Lewis
It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us. -- Thomas Paine
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. -- Pablo Picasso
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you. -- Pete Postlethwaite
Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him. -- Eddie Vedder
The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it? -- Reinhard Bonnke
Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. -- Rupert Holmes
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again. -- Jack Handey
To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter. -- Ludwig Boltzmann
this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him -- Lauren Kate
Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture. -- Claude M. Steele
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. -- Andre Malraux
Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people. -- Augusten Burroughs
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms. -- Rufus Wainwright
What is conditional love? Conditional love is an oxymoron. Conditional love is an imposter of love. Conditional love is something other than love, because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional. -- Donald L. Hicks
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit. -- Edward Young
Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. â?¦ Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew. -- Louis Farrakhan
Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter. -- Dorothy Day

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