Quotes about Experts

“Good counselors lack no clients.”

“An ordinary man away from home giving advice.”

“An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.”

“Experts often possess more data than judgment.”

“An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.”

“A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.”

“One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.”

“A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.”

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

“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”

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

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

“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”

“A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.”

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

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

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

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