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Quote by Samuel Butler
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to de

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. – Samuel Butler

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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

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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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Always listen to experts. Theyll tell you what cant be done and why. Then do it. – Robert A. Heinlein

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

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