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• Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

  William Temple

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• His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.

  John Stott

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• I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline – I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

  Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.

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• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge.

  Topics in American Proverbs, Wisdom

  Tags in Like, Authority

• There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

  Pratibha Patil

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• People are always casting me for what they call my ‘authority.’

  Linda Hunt

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• Eagles fly alone.

  Topics in English Proverbs, Leadership

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• To command one must learn to obey.

  Topics in American Proverbs, Leadership

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  Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

  Topics in Knowledge, Memory, Truth

  Tags in Authority, Argument

• A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

  Gary Hamel

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  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

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  The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Topics in Education, Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Authority

• I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

  Gail Simmons

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• I think that’s the most important job of a novelist – to bring authority to their writing.

  Maria Semple

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• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Belief, Politics, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Authority, Opinion

• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Genius, Humor, Leadership

  Tags in Authority, Philosophy

• Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Respect, Truth

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• You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

  Donald Rumsfeld

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• I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear, Knowledge, Truth

  Tags in Authority, Result, Reason

• You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

  Byron Dorgan

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