Experts Quotes

• Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Learning, Murphys Law

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• For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

  Jasper Fforde

  Science, Opposites, Skepticism

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.291, Princeton University Press

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Teaching, Imagination

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Government, Intelligence

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.2, Psychology Press

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• Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Knowledge, Men, Order

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• If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

  Peter Ustinov

  Sarcastic, Future, Sarcasm

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

  James Callaghan

  Leadership, Courage, Political

  "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.

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• There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Mind, Deities

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.118, Univ of California Press

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• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Advice, Would Be, Buying

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• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Business, Future

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• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  W. Clement Stone

  Business, Entrepreneur, Trying

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• You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Writing

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

  Edward de Bono

  Knowing, Decision, Judgement

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Simplicity”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Done, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Responsibility, Familiar

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

  Harold MacMillan

  Kings, Fall, Divine Right

  1950 Speech, Strasbourg,16 Aug.

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• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Funny, Encouraging, Education

  Commencement address at Columbia University

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

  P. J. Plauger

  Definitions, Fields, Scared

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• Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Family, Education, Children

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• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  W. C. Fields

  Father, Science, Prison

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• Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

  William Osler

  Philosophy, Practice, Smell

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• We are all experts in our own little niches.

  Alex Trebek

  Encouraging, Littles, Niche

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• Experts often possess more data than judgment.

  Colin Powell

  Data, Action, Judgment

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.173, Ballantine Books

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