Expertise Limits Quotes

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

I give opinions, not advice.

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.