“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”
“Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.”
“It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”
“People who are winning at working don't ignore the problems they encounter.”
“Nobody is qualified enough to give advise on intimate relationships other than those sleeping with it.”
“Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.”