Specialists Quotes

132 Specialists quotes by 115 unique authors

We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and… — Wendell Berry
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.… — Wendell Berry
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in… — Jonathan Kozol
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who… — Robert M. Pirsig
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Max Weber
I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. — James A. Baldwin
How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must… — Woody Allen
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,… — Noam Chomsky
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone. — Stephen Greenblatt
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle
People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear… — Lee Child
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far… — Aubrey de Grey
We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge… — Richard Lamm
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about… — Noam Chomsky
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the… — Virginia Postrel
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of… — Barton Gellman
Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on.… — Ryan Kavanaugh
Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience… — Buzz Aldrin
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. — William J. Mayo
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about… — Charles Bronson

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