Expertise Comparison Quotes

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

I think nobody knows more about comic book characters than Seth Green. I thought I knew a lot, and he leaves me in the dust.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

"Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand people could have the job. There are people out there that have just as educated an opinion on what I'm calling or describing as I do.

I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard.