Quotes About Expertise

I've spoken to over 10,000 guys in my career, so I know what they think when it comes to dating.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.

And she went on in this vein for a minute or two; she could talk about alloys the way some girls talked about shoes.