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Quotes About Experts

Duck Dynasty viewers think they're the experts on hunting, but actually they're the hunted ones, just another dumb demographic to be captured, laughed at and force-fed commercials for Geico and Home Depot by the Smart People in New York and L.A.
~ Matt Taibbi
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.
~ Max Brooks
To a great extent, the PR experts need to know the target consumer, their traits, media consumption habits, preferences, everything.
~ Unknown
Instead of simply telling you what the science shows and then letting you make up your own mind, experts patronize the population by advocating what they think is practical rather than ideal. By making the decision for you, they undermine those willing to make even greater changes for optimal health.
~ Michael Greger
In any pandemic, effective leadership is critical, and the first responsibility of the president or the head of any nation is to offer accurate and up-to-date information, provided by public health experts, not agenda-oriented political operatives.
~ Unknown
He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts,
~ Michael Wolff
But a person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free. His thinking will be directed by the opinions of his neighbors, by the editorials in the papers, and by the appeals of television. He will be at the mercy of "experts.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognize and validate the innovation
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
And when I say the Fashion Police, of course I'm speaking of the small group of screeching gay guys and fashion "experts" on that E! show led by the reanimated corpse of Joan Rivers.
~ Mindy Kaling
The Heartland Institute is known among climate scientists for persistent questioning of climate science, for its promotion of "experts" who have done little, if any, peer-reviewed climate research, and for its sponsorship of a conference in New York City in 2008 alleging that the scientific community's work on global warming is a fake.75 But Heartland's activities are far more extensive, and reach back into the 1990s when they, too, were working with Philip Morris.
~ Naomi Oreskes
History shows us clearly that science does not provide certainty. It does not provide proof. It only provides the consensus of experts, based on the organized accumulation and scrutiny of evidence.
~ Naomi Oreskes
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
~ Nathaniel Borenstein
Over the past 15 years, I have worked with four DCYF directors and spent hours in General Assembly committee hearings. I had a marathon strategy session last year with Lt. Gov. Dan McKee. I have met with dozens of hardworking front-line staff, and listened to countless parents, experts, and advocates, all of whom echo the same refrain: the system is beyond repair.
~ Unknown
Some security experts noted that the countries that nurture terrorists are disproportionally those where women are marginalized. The reason there are so many Muslim terrorists, they argued, has little to do with the Koran but a great deal to do with the lack of robust female participation in the economy and society of many Islamic countries.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities. When confrontedy by the bull's horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The question that poses itself is exactly what one means by "democracy." Is it to be identified with self-conscious peoples ruling themselves, or does it entail the establishment and maintenance of "civic culture" by experts with "progressive" social views? Although these two opposed understandings have coexisted in the same societies, they are fundamentally incompatible.
~ Unknown
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
~ Pauline Hanson
our technology and our economic system seem to produce the present bad situation: millions of people feel themselves poor and powerless; millions feel that music is something to be made only by experts.
~ Pete Seeger