{"quotes":[{"text":"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["experts","expression","freedom-of-expression","rationality","thought"],"id":12206,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.","author":"Alex Berenson","tags":["people","prove","experts "],"id":46023,"author_id":"Alex+Berenson"},{"text":"You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["consistent","consistent-actions","consistent-effort","consistent-learning","educate","education","education-knowledge","educational-inequity","educational-philosophy","educational-reform","educational-system","educator","expert","expert-beginner","expert-guidance","experts","learn","learned","learning","learning-by-doing","learning-from-mistakes","learning-process","learning-to-read","learning-to-shine","study","study-in-character","studying-science","subject","teach","teaching","teaching-children-philosophy"],"id":80453,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"When employers designate certain jobs 'professional' and insist that employees have professional training – not just the technical skills that seem sufficient to do the work – they must have more in mind than efficiency. Hierarchical organizations need professionals, because through professionals those at the top control the political content of what is produced, and because professionals contribute to the bosses' control of the workforce itself.","author":"Jeff Schmidt","tags":["career","experts"],"id":102855,"author_id":"Jeff+Schmidt"},{"text":"The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.","author":"Lawrence Booth","tags":["australia-national-cricket-team","body-language","cricket","england-cricket-team","experts","handshakes","media","scrutiny","the-ashes"],"id":109440,"author_id":"Lawrence+Booth"},{"text":"People who have practiced occult religions for many years are being told that they don't know the first thing about their own religion and its beliefs and practices - and that a bunch of zealots from another religion posing as 'experts' (in a religion they despise/ fear/ oppose and who peddle slander and misinformation about occult religions), are more credible than they are.Non Seqitur. This does not follow.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["beliefs","despise","experts","fear","misinformation","non-sequitur","occult","oppose","peddle","practiced","practices","religion","religions","slander","zealots"],"id":132938,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.","author":"Winston S. Churchill","tags":["experts","government","knowledge"],"id":150558,"author_id":"Winston+S.+Churchill"},{"text":"Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.","author":"Glenn Greenwald","tags":["2011","2011-norway-attacks","consensus","elitism","expertise","experts","politics","twitter"],"id":151291,"author_id":"Glenn+Greenwald"},{"text":"POUND\t\tWe spend twelve hundred generations developing \t so-called civilization to the point where it  produces an expert who can offer us salvation  from our superstitions, and all we end up with  is another superstition! If it takes someone  like Freud to save us from our neuroses, what’s \t\tit gonna take to save us from Freud?","author":"Billy Marshall Stoneking","tags":["civilization","experts","stoneking","superstition"],"id":154121,"author_id":"Billy+Marshall+Stoneking"},{"text":"The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the last port of call. The experts said it was the most powerful hand weapon in the known universe. He choked. That would soon be put to the test!","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["call","choked","experts","hand","he","one","powerful","prototypes","received","test","the","universe","was"],"id":169996,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}