"The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement."
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"... 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."
"Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put."
"Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents."
"My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing."
"Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are."
"Experts are just trained dogs."
"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
"Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford."
"I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts."
"I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past."
"Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right."
"It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields."
"I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy."
"Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself."
"Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts."
"Experts are clueless."