quotations 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 elite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
W. H. AUDEN
Faber Book of Modern American Verse
In the mouth of an expert demagogue there is a dangerous and dreadful weapon.
R. SOUTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
FRANK A. CLARK
attributed, Quotable Quotes
A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
RUGGIERO RICCI
Daily Telegraph, May 25, 1990
An expert is a man who always has a good reason for guessing wrong.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.
DANIEL J. LEVITIN
"From Musician to Neuroscientist: An Interview with Daniel Levitin, PhD, author of This Is Your Brain on Music", American Academy of Audiology
Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
VACLAV HAVEL
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World
The only thing worse than an expert is someone who thinks he's an expert.
ALY A. COLON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
WERNER HEISENBERG
Physics and Beyond
Where facts are few, experts are many.
DONALD R. GANNON
attributed, How to Create Profitable New Products
What a delightful thing is the conversation of the specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
EDGAR DEGAS
Degas Latters
Experts are like the cleverest cave dwellers. They receive money and honor for their skills at manipulating shadows.
KRISTIN SHRADER-FRECHETTE
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Let me show my expertease
I'm an expertease and you know it
Let me show my expertease
I'm an expert please
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"Expertease (Ready Set Go)"
Second, there is the issue of the role of risk in the contemporary distrust of experts. Is this distrust, and the possibility it might hold out for a new reflexivity in late modernity, the result of enlightened calculation and deliberate choices made by citizens exposed to new hazards? Although there are surely instrumental-calculative dimensions to citizens' deliberations about the "objective" facts and fears of the risks they confront, social constructivist research increasingly shows that such a perspective misses or understates the more important social and cultural interpretive dimensions that underlie and condition such thought. Indeed, it neglects the very dynamics of the thought processes that lead to a deeper reflection on the institutions and processes of which the experts and their arguments are a part.
FRANK FISCHER
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
If you would be an expert, keep company with experts.
HINDUSTANI PROVERB