Quotes About Expertise

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Individual humans know embarrassingly little about the world, and as history has progressed, they have come to know less and less. A hunter-gatherer in the Stone Age knew how to make her own clothes, how to start a fire, how to hunt rabbits, and how to escape lions. We think we know far more today, but as individuals, we actually know far less. We rely on the expertise of others for almost all our needs.

Politics, too, is a second-order chaotic system. Many people criticise Sovietologists for failing to predict the 1989 revolutions and castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011. This is unfair. Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts.

Bust most experts think on a timescale of academic grants and college jobs. Hence, 'very far away' may mean twenty years, 'never' may denote no more than fifty

if you want reliable information, pay good money for it.

He is a human being, Sergei Aleksandrovich, whereas you and I are just specialists.

The only way middle managers can survive is by virtue of their expertise which cannot be substituted by machines anymore. In short, organizations will preside over the funeral of most middle managers in the times to come.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and ""experts"" have affirmed it. ""Studies show"" is to the modern secular college graduate what ""Scripture says"" is to the religious fundamentalist.

There is nothing about a Ph.D. that guarantees a person will be wiser, kinder, or more ethical than someone with only a high school education.

People usually feel comfortable making decisions about subject matter that's familiar to them.

Past experience, no matter how vast or varied, cannot be the guarantee of future best performance. Experience, in my view, is often a double-edged sword that sometimes works in your favor, and many a times against. You must use experience and expertise smartly to your advantage, and never fall prey to 'Been there, done that' attitude.

Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses