Quotation Explorer - 'Expert'

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.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it. - Gugu Mona
Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman. - Anu Garg
nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character. - Winston S. Churchill
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. - Virgil
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. - P. J. Plauger
It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story. - Richard Gist
If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff. - Richie Norton
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. - Benjamin Stolberg
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, which is absolutely essential. But the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can save us from our sin problem. - John Paul Warren
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. - Sydney J. Harris
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. - Norman Augustine
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can! - John Paul Warren
By the time you become an expert at marriage, it is too late to start a new one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. - Werner Heisenberg
Mavis' bear sailed through the air in Cassie's room, falling onto the bed. 'What's he in aid of?' 'He's reconnaissance expert. He wouldn't hear of me enterin' potential hostile ground without testin' for fire. Has his sacrifice been in vain? - Christine M. Knight
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter
One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior? - Dada Bhagwan
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry - Taylor Swift
Sometimes, I present myself as an expert and talk non-sense. To be honest, passing out hugs is far better than passing judgements. TRY THIS! - Saurabh Sharma
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. - Eric Raymond
It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters. - Matt Chandler
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. - Laurence J. Peter
You can feel sweetness of heart even if you're not an expert. - Debasish Mridha
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. - Peter Ustinov
And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen. Jenny blinked. I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead? - Maggie Osborne
Don’t worry, I’m the business expert here, and when I make my first million, I’m going to sue those werewolves’ asses off, Priscilla said cheerfully. They’ll have no ass left. They’ll be ass-less. They’ll look ridiculous. - St. Clair, Georgette
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert. - Meryl Streep
The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice. - Pierre Berton
Nobody is really an expert, as we are all still learning. - Avis J. Williams
I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness. - Monika Zands
Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘Millicent at last understands.’ Nobody ever understands. - Kurt Vonnegut
Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert’s ‘opinion’ to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease - Gary Hopkins
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on. - Nirav Sanchaniya
If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side. - William Zinsser
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. - Nicholas Murray Butler
Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement. - Helen Macdonald
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