Quotes About Expertise

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

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

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Palming separates the men from the boys!

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Experience really does make you better, man.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

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.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge