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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

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ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

3.9 · 64 votes · 169 reads

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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

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Nicolas Chamfort

WriterFrench1741 · 18th century

4.2 · 62 votes · 184 reads

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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

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PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

4.3 · 54 votes

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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

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Bertrand Russell

PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

4.9 · 29 votes · 168 reads

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Good counselors lack no clients.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.7 · 60 votes · 154 reads

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

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William Butler Yeats

PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

3.2 · 23 votes

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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

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Laurence J. Peter

WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

5.0 · 59 votes · 147 reads

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

4.8 · 33 votes

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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.

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AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

4.5 · 25 votes

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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
4.7 · 6 votes · 91 reads
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Wentworth Dillon
PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century
3.0 · 54 votes · 4 reads
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Doris Lessing
WriterBritish1919 · 20th century
3.4 · 32 votes · 122 reads
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas
PainterFrench1834 · 19th century
4.6 · 20 votes · 30 reads
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