Experts quotes
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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?"
"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion"
"The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches."
"The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing."
"Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic."
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"If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?"
"You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert."
"I think the leading cause of financial disablement is the belief that you can rely on the experts to help you. Investing requires an intense personal involvement."
"Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student."
"Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot."
"You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable."
"You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert."
"Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack."
"We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."
"The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition."
"Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs."
"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
"The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work."
"An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many."
"It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest."
"The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement."
"... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force."
"Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place."
"In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips."
"I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too."
