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Laurence J. Peter quotesMake three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Aldous Huxley quotesSpecialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.
Samuel Butler quotesThe public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotesDo not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
George Bernard Shaw quotesNo man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
Doris Lessing quotesThis world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Bertrand Russell quotesEven when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Edgar Degas quotesWhat a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
W. H. Auden quotesAmerica has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
William Shakespeare quotesGood counselors lack no clients.
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