Richard Hooker Quotes

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Knowledge is power.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

The wisest have the most authority.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

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

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Who's to say who's an expert?

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Knowledge itself is power.

Do not seek advice from the ignorant.

When you choose a leader, follow him as a man, not as a god.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.