Expert Quotes

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. View quote
Peter Ustinov
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view. View quote
Morarji Desai
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. View quote
Agatha Christie
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. View quote
Edward de Bono
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk. (David Carradine)
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. View quote
Roy H. Williams
I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired. View quote
Kim Jong-il
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
I may not be the expert as some people on foreign policy, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. View quote
Mike Huckabee
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely! View quote
David Hockney
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence. View quote
Ronald Fisher
I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat. View quote
Nigella Lawson
Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts". (Dean Koontz)
So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ... View quote
Marianne Moore
I'm not an expert, but I want to be. View quote
Ben Nicholson
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. View quote
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