Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through. . . I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.
We are all experts in our own little niches.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.
Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.
If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids. " You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just the loud voices about how things are going; or doesn't give so called experts the notion that they know what public opinion is. I think that's what makes public opinion polling pretty important. Qualitative assessments of public opinion; going out and talking to people and understanding the nuance to what's behind the numbers. I think it's awfully important as well.
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.