Carl Jung Quotes

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I specialize in something. I can't - I don't have the time to read other things. I'll just go to pure entertainment when I'm relaxing, and then I'll come back to my pure specialty.' That produces - that attitude produces idiot savants, unfortunately.

I know what I can do and what I can deliver and there's not many people who can do what I can do.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.