Top 235 Expert Quotes

A white chef can be an expert in French food and then turn around and go to Thailand for a week and come back and be an expert in Thai cuisine.
Sohla El-Waylly
I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan, I had a ringside seat to the entire health-care reform process.
Ron Williams
I’m getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Sure, you’re an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.
Kathryn Minshew
I’m not an education expert, and frankly I don’t want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.
Linda Lingle
I’m an expert witness in a case that’s in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company – he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later.
Kevin Mitnick
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Tom Hopkins
A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.
Munira Mirza
I’m not an Iran expert.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
I can't say I'm an expert on public transport.

I can’t say I’m an expert on public transport.
Michael Connelly
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it’s produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
Kehinde Wiley
I’m no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don’t possess any secret wisdom. I’m just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I’m highly emotional. I’m very vulnerable.
Janet Jackson
I mean, it’s fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there’s no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who’s a lot more expert at issues than I am.
Laura Bush
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.
Maryanne Wolf
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
Lucy Hawking
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you’re definitely not an expert.
Brendon Burchard
One of the best family traditions is creative ways mothers and fathers discipline children while in church. My mother was an expert at the ‘dig her fingernails into my arm while continuing to smile and sing’ trick.
Mollie Hemingway
I’m no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.
Blake Lively
I’m not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.
Yossi Ghinsberg
When you have a deep focus, you can’t go wrong at all. Not when you’re an expert at what you do.
DJ Premier
I’m definitely not an expert on public health.
Spencer Dinwiddie
An expert knows all the answers – if you ask the right questions.
Levi Strauss
I want to be out there learning from others, helping to provide insight whenever I can, though I don’t consider myself an expert on anything.
Kate Gosselin
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
Ben Stiller
I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.
Jimmy Carter
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It’s something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.
Mani Ratnam
I don’t claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do ‘The Newsroom,’ I would have done it yesterday.
Dule Hill
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn’t make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn’t mean you understand psychology.
Adam Grant
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.
Sidney Lanier
It seems that, every day, a new brand is popping up, and everyone has become an expert on supplements and training. Hey, there’s a lot of great brands and products out there, but there are also those just looking to grab a piece of the money pie.
Ronnie Coleman
I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that’s what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
Damon Lindelof
I’m by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I’m doing the best I can in Year 1. But I’ve already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I’ll keep learning them.
Ed McCaffrey
People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.
Lynn Davies
I’m not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.
Andre Geim
I don’t think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I’m an expert at it.
Nancy Reagan
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
David Antin
I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.
Brianna Wu
If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.
David Ben-Gurion
Look, I'm not a water expert. I'm not a scientist. But

Look, I’m not a water expert. I’m not a scientist. But I’ve been to Flint. I’ve seen what’s happening. We have a third-world situation still going on in the United States of America. That’s the truth.
Rasheed Wallace
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Joseph Fiennes
As actors, you become an expert at starting over.
Lupita Nyong’o
If I’m trying to get you to travel by showing you the best places in the world to eat, I think enthusiasm goes a long way. Especially because I’m not a chef, I’m not an expert. I’m a tourist like you.
Philip Rosenthal
When I hear people flatteringly say, ‘You’re an expert on East Asia…’ I’m certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there’s always something behind the wall in China.
Jenny Shipley
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
Tom Stoppard
My husband would talk about my volunteer work on his show, and people assumed I was this expert. On a daily basis, they would stop and ask me questions about their dogs.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
I don’t want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don’t think that’s the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it’s very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.
Rich Eisen
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry Kissinger
A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I’m not. All you have to do is meet Tucker; you’ll know that I’m not an expert at training dogs.
W. Bruce Cameron
Our mental skills expert Gilbert Enoka is just amazing the work he does.
Beauden Barrett
In my life, I’m an expert on a few things. Losing close elections is one of them. Electric utility regulation is another. Neither is a barrel of laughs, but both have their moments.
Peter Navarro
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
Jane Smiley
Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn’t like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she’s the biggest athletics fan out there. She’s a real expert, and she’s got all the heptathlon books.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
A man who is invested takes the time to get to know you well, and his gifts will be a testament to his expert grasp of your likes and dislikes.
Matthew Hussey
Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else. This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.
Steve Hilton
Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
Malcolm Arnold