A Quote by Virgil

Trust the expert. -Experto credite — © Virgil
Trust the expert. -Experto credite

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Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!
Most of what we know we don't really know first hand. I've never seen a cancer cell. But I trust this community of experts who have, so I believe that cancer exists. But we trust these experts, and we trust that the experts have a system of checks and balances and self-correction. And we have to insist that experts have certain certifications. They're not perfect. Every once in awhile there's an engine falls off the wing of a plane, or a tax audit happens and you find out your expert made a mistake. But it's a pretty good system. It's the best system we've got.
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
I'm not really a relationship expert but... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
In the Champions League I'm no expert. Pep is the expert, he's won it twice as a manager.
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