Experts Quotes - Page 5

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.

Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?” “Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,” said Will.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

Experts are just trained dogs.

The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

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.

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.

... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

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.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.