Quote: An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. Author: Niels Bohr 1885-1962, Danish Physicist
Quote: An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Author: Nicholas Butler 1862-1947, American Educationist
Quote: The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. Author: Alistair Cooke 1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet
Quote: What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. Author: Edgar Degas 1834-1917, French Painter, Sculptor
Quote: A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B. Author: Fats Domino American Singer
Quote: A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. Author: Martin H. Fisher
Quote: 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. Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: 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. Author: Georg Hegel 1770-1831, German Philosopher
Quote: Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Author: Robert Heinlein 1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer
Quote: Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. Author: Tom Hopkins American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Author: Henry Kissinger 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State
Quote: 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. Author: Doris Lessing 1919-, British Novelist
Quote: We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. Author: Harold Macmillan 1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. Author: Herbert Marshall American Actor
Quote: The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. Author: Marcel Masse
Quote: Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. Author: William James Mayo 1861-1939, American Surgeon, Founder of Mayo Clinic
Quote: Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert. Author: Alan Pease
Quote: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. Author: Laurence J. Peter
Quote: An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. Author: Bum Phillips American Football Coach
Quote: My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. Author: P. J. Plauger
Quote: Experts often possess more data than judgment. Author: Colin Powell 1937-, American Army General
Quote: What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: A specialist is someone who does everything else worse. Author: Ruggiero Ricci 1918-, American Violinist
Quote: There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor
Quote: Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. Author: Lord Samuel
Quote: Good counselors lack no clients. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. Author: Robert Townsend American Businessman, President of Avis
Quote: 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 Author: Max Weber 1864-1920, German Sociologist
Quote: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. Author: Steven Weinberg 1933-, American Nuclear Physicist
Quote: An ordinary man away from home giving advice. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit