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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
-Proverb
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
-W. H. Auden
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
-Francis Bacon
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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
-Samuel Butler
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
-Alistair Cooke
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
-William Cowper
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
-Edgar Degas
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
-George Eliot
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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
-Martin H. Fisher
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
-Felix Frankfurter
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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
-John Gay
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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
-G. W. F. Hegel
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
-Tom Hopkins
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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
-Elbert Hubbard
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.
-Aldous Huxley
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
-Henry Kissinger
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This 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.
-Doris Lessing
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.
-Primo Levi
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
-Harold MacMillan
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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
-Herbert Marshall
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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
-Marcel Masse
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Books about Professionalism
