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Quotes about experts
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 lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. (Auden W. H.)
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. (Auden W. H.)
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. (Auden W. H.)
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. (Auden W. H.)
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity. (Auden W. H.)
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. (Auden W. H.)
A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. (Auden W. H.)
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. (Auden W. H.)
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. (Auden W. H.)
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. (Auden W. H.)
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. (Auden W. H.)
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science. (Auden W. H.)
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. (Auden W. H.)
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. (Auden W. H.)
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. (Auden W. H.)
The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. (Auden W. H.)
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. (Auden W. H.)
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert. (Auden W. H.)
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. (Auden W. H.)
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. (Auden W. H.)
Experts often possess more data than judgment. (Auden W. H.)
What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. (Auden W. H.)
A specialist is someone who does everything else worse. (Auden W. H.)
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in. (Auden W. H.)
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. (Auden W. H.)
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