Quotes about Expertise
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!
— Napoleon Hill
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
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— Napoleon Hill
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.
— J. Gresham Machen
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
— William Hazlitt
Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.
— Brian Tracy
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
— Brigham Young
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
— Bruce Lee
In other words, if you wanted good government, then expertise mattered. You needed public institutions stocked with people whose job it was to pay attention to important stuff so the rest of us citizens didn't have to.
— Barack Obama
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
— Stephen Covey