Quotes with authority

  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
  • The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
  • The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
  • To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
  • Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
  • Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
  • Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
  • Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
  • I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Antony Jay 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • William Shakespeare Art made tongue-tied by authority.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Hobbes It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brendan Behan A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Arleigh Burke Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Ben Shahn Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Authority forgets a dying king.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Seneca Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Robert M. Lindner Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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