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A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
Ruggiero Ricci
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
Oscar Wilde
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
Martin H. Fisher
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
Elaine Morgan
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
Good counselors lack no clients.
William Shakespeare
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
William James Mayo
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Lord Samuel
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.
W. H. Auden
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
Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
Blaise Pascal
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
Max Weber
