Expertise Quotes

“If an expert says it is possible, he is almost certainly right. If an expert says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”

“He expressed his surprise that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend, but those who have no skill in it act as judges.”

“A connoisseur is a man who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.”

“The most wretched cook is the one who has been only a cook.”

“If you're not a parent, you're not a pediatric expert.”

“The expert is a man who knows a great deal about a very little.”

“The botany of the Northern United States, I may say, is my field.”

“Generally speaking, everybody is right-wing on the subjects he knows about.”

“The expert should be on tap, but not on top.”

“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

“It is a rare expert who combines a masterful command of his subject with the ability to make it accessible to the layman.”

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

“An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.”

“An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.”

“At no period of history has mankind been bulging with experts. There are, in fact, none, and we are all beginners, at different stages of ignorance.”

“An expert is a man who knows all the answers, if you ask the right questions.”

“I have been the sea-level man for 40 years. And I can't see it. I can't see the rise.”