Expert quotes and words of wisdom

"Always listen to experts. They"ll tell you what can"t be done, and why. Then do it."
Robert Anson Heinlein


"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
Niels Bohr


"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
Niels Henrik David Bohr


"An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy."
Benjamin Stolberg


"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."
Nicholas Murray Butler


"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them."
Werner Heisenberg


"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive."
Abraham H. Maslow


"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can"t be done."
Peter Ustinov


"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner"s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert"s mind there are few."
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi


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


"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for."
Amos Tversky


"Where facts are few, experts are many."
Donald R. Gannon


Interesting Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Muhammad Ali - US boxer (1942 - )

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer (1900 - 1944)