I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.
It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!
The Internet is filled with so-called experts who couldn't lace up a pair of boots.
I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
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.
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
