Logo
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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Professionalism
category

I hold every man a debtor to his profession. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Professionalism

What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. – Proverb

Category:
Professionalism

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

Category:
Professionalism

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

Category:
Professionalism

Random Quotes

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. – Emil Ludwig

Category:
Friendship

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
Curmudgeonesque

There is a woman at the begining of all great things. – Alphonse de Lamartine

Category:
great

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. – Toni Morrison

Category:
Women