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• I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

  Harry S. Truman

  Learning, Knowledge, Said

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• Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Office, Politics

  Illustrated London News, April 6, 1918.

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• Experts are just trained dogs.

  Albert Einstein

  Dog, Political, Politics

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• Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

  Evan Esar

  Science, Math, Statistics

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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• I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.

  John N. Bahcall

  Believe, Fate, Science

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• An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Work, Men

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• Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Business, Giving

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.38, Penguin

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• Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Happiness, Giving, People

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Done, Fads

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognisable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile and vain.

  Henri Poincare

  Eye, Science, Past

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.328, Modern Library

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• It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Done, Shows

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• There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Saint, Culture, May

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• By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Men, Poverty

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• An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

  William Castle

  Funny, Fashion, Laughter

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• Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.

  George Polya

  Appreciation, Ideas, Appreciate

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Fall, Kissing

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• Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fate, Enemy

  "The Art of War". Chapter VI: Weaknesses and Strengths. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Teaching, Justice

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

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• Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.

  Frank P. Ramsey

  Acceptance, Science, History

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• Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth

  Donald Keough

  Jobs, Educational, Thinking

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• I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Beach, Bodybuilding

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something.' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Self, Meditation, Achievement

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• Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Doe, Defense

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