Quotes About Expertise

Our view of human problems determines who is qualified to speak to them. If sin is the primary human problem, then those with the theological and practical expertise in dealing with sin – in its varied and complex forms – should lead the way in the field of people-helping. Unless we have an accurate and robust conception of sin, the church will concede much of its work to outside professional and will be ill-equipped to cooperate with them when needed.

They should stick to knitting," Napoleon had once said.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

A bureaucracy is an agency that has power over us and therefore will use that power to advance its own self-interest. Bureaucrats have little or no incentive to serve the interests of the public as their compensation is received whether or not they do so and they lack the expertise to do so even if so inclined.

Our world is now so complex, our technology and science so powerful, and our problems so global and interconnected that we have come to the limits of individual human intelligence and individual expertise.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

The professional interpreter is a minor miracle—far better

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, critique.

Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!

No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.

It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.

a competent-looking middle-aged man. He spoke briskly and with decision.

an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.

Anyone can criticize. But no ordinary talent can justify his criticism with concrete suggestions that really improve something.

A movie director is like a front-line commanding officer. He needs a thorough knowledge of every branch of the service, and if he doesn't command each division, he cannot command the whole.

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

Know what you are talking about.