Quotes About Expertise

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.