Expert Quotes

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

Today, Tomorrow, Happen

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Mistakes, Made, Narrow

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

Father, State, Prison

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

Trying, Try, Become

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

Someone, Through, Ignore

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Hillary Clinton

Marriage, Mystery

I'm not an expert on the arms race.
Abdul Kalam

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley

Life, Experience, Learning

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Denis Waitley

Thinking, Avoid, Continue

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry A. Kissinger

After, Leader, Familiar

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Mistakes, Someone, Made

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.
Malcolm Forbes

Someone, Enough, Read

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler

Alone, Become, Learn

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

Knows, Thinks, Cutting

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Laurence J. Peter

Makes, Three, Correct

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
Tom Stoppard

Able, Against, Hold

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Henny Youngman

Time, Himself, Army

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J. Peter

Three, Reputation, Correct

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
Dick Gregory

Understand, Sick, Makes

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
Jeff Bridges

School, Different, Wonderful

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz

Knowledge, Nothing, Everything

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
David Ben-Gurion

Done, Another, Says

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

Saying, Done, Last

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCullough

Book, Journey, Felt

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
David Rockefeller

Art, Mother, She

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki

Mind, Few, Beginner

I'm not really a relationship expert but ...I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
Steve Harvey

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Laurence Olivier

God, Remember, Poet

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan

Reality, Understand, Fashion

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
Ashley Tisdale

Dating, Nice, Give

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