Quotes about experts

"America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment."

Auden, W. H. on experts   

"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

Bohr, Niels on experts
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"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Butler, Nicholas on experts   

"The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them."

Butler, Samuel on experts
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"A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."

Cooke, Alistair on experts   

"It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity."

Cooley, Charles Horton on experts   

"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."

Cowper, William on experts   

"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."

Degas, Edgar on experts   

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B."

Fats Domino on experts   

"A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects."

Fisher, Martin H. on experts   

"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on experts   

"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."

Hegel, Georg on experts   

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."

Heinlein, Robert on experts   

"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on experts
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"An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past."

Hopkins, Tom on experts   

"One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on experts   

"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science."

Huxley, Aldous on experts   

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

Kissinger, Henry on experts   

"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."

Lessing, Doris on experts   

"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."

Macmillan, Harold on experts   

"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."

Marshall, Herbert on experts   

"The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists."

Masse, Marcel on experts   

"Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists."

Mayo, William James on experts   

"Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert."

Pease, Alan on experts   

"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert."

Peter, Laurence J. on experts   

"An expert is an ordinary fella away from home."

Phillips, Bum on experts   

"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared."

Plauger, P. J. on experts   

"Experts often possess more data than judgment."

Powell, Colin on experts   

"What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home."

Proverb, American on experts   

"A specialist is someone who does everything else worse."

Ricci, Ruggiero on experts   

"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Rogers, Will on experts
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken."

Russell, Bertrand on experts
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"Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile."

Samuel, Lord on experts   

"Good counselors lack no clients."

Shakespeare, William on experts
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"No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot."

Shaw, George Bernard on experts   

"Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch."

Townsend, Robert on experts   

"Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac"

Weber, Max on experts   

"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."

Weinberg, Steven on experts   

"An ordinary man away from home giving advice."

Wilde, Oscar on experts
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