An ordinary fellow from another town

—Sanjit Bunker Roy paraphrasing, though not citing, Mark Twain

[An expert is] somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides..

—Edwin Meese

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field

—Niels Bohr

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

—Thomas Szasz

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

—Albert Camus

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

—Henry Kissinger

I’d like [people] to remember me for a diligent … expert workman…. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God’s a workman. I don’t think there’s anything better than a workman.

—Laurence Olivier

He doesn’t know a damn thing about China … That’s what makes him an expert. He knows nothing about music, being tone deaf. That’s what makes him a musician … And he’s batty in the head. That’s what makes him a philosopher.

—William Carlos Williams

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

—Josephy Lelyveld

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

—David Mamet

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