Quotes About Expertise

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

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

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists, that would be splendid!

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone that asks you the right question

Death is my speciality, and you have my professional assurances that it's not in any way permanent.

it turns out that ten thousand amateurs taken on average are usually better at coming up with a workable solution than one expert is. Anybody that's ever heard an unrehearsed crowd sing a familiar melody accurately has witnessed this in action.

Then, when those amateur experts share their advice, you can smile, say "Oh, really?" and then go about your business, with quiet confidence, in your own way.

Today, without its exotic carapace, the exterior is a reddish brick within which the arches and buttresses that made such a feat of engineering possible are clearly visible. They have their own beauty; through such structural expertise the Pantheon has been in constant use for 1,875 years.

Generally, pharmacists know a lot more about drugs than doctors do.

a mind broadened by rigorous understanding of theory, but also steeped in the nuances of actual practice.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A

It turned out that he was a specialist in paleontology and had spent a lot of time studying rocks. He tried to claim that his expertise at examining rocks made him able to identify people. Under cross-examination, all his carefully constructed "expertise" turned into a pile of rocks, and this new technical breakthrough in crime fighting proved to be nothing but a fraud.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.

Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.

Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.

Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any kind of longevity, if you want any kind of legacy, you need to know what ancestral line you are from.

What Beats brings to Apple are guys with very rare skills. People like this aren't born every day. They're very rare. They really get music deeply.

It is neither racist nor elitist to say publicly what every rational person believes privately - that if you don't know anything about a subject, you ought not to raise your hand or cast a ballot on the matter.

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are.