Quotes About Expertise

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.

All my knowledge comes from research.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.