“Trust the expert.”

— Virgil , Aeneid

Variant translations:
Trust one who has gone through it.
Believe one who has had experience.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XI, Line 283; cf. "experto crede".

Original

Experto credite.

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Virgil 138

Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

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“No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

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1870s
Context: No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.