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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 élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an
object of distrust and resentment.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
An expert is
someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be
made, in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr
1885-1962, Danish Physicist
An expert is
one who knows more and more about less and less.
-- Nicholas Butler
1862-1947, American
Educationist
The public do
not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide
between them.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
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A
professional; is someone who can do his best work when he
doesn't feel like it.
-- Alistair Cooke
1908-, British Broadcaster,
Journalist
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.
-- Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
How much a
dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has
been kept at home.
-- William Cowper
1731-1800, British Poet
What a
delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One
understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
-- Edgar Degas
1834-1917, French Painter,
Sculptor
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