Quotes about Expertise

A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.