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America has always been a country of amateurs where the profession

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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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. – Martin H. Fisher

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An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. – Tom Hopkins

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