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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 physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is Gods message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. – Samuel Butler

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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

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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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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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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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