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Quote by Edgar Degas
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One un

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

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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas

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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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One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard

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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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

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