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

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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. – Marcel Masse

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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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