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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
— Martin Luther
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
— Philip Kitcher
We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
— Jesse Jackson
Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
— Raheel Farooq
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
— G.K. Chesterton
The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.
— Harry Gordon Selfridge
Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
— Jacques Barzun
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
— Clare Short
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
— Prince Charles
He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time,
— Arthur C. Clarke
Demons smell like ass - nasty ass that slithers down your throat, finds your gag reflex, and sits on it with authority.
— Kevin Hearne
Authority is first and foremost based on reason.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am told, on excellent authority, that her father keeps an American dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas Burdon,
— Oscar Wilde
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
— A.J. Ayer
I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.
— Floyd Gottfredson
A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
— Cardiss Collins
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.
— A.J. Darkholme
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Speaking for George Will, on whose thinking I am world's foremost authority, I say: not necessarily. The heavy hitters do have heavy responsibilities.
— George F. Will
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
— Sherrod Brown
Never depend on another person for your happiness. If someone had the authority to give, then he or she had the authority to take away.
— Sejal Badani
Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As
— Charles Dickens
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
— Frank Chodorov
The more time you spend with the Lord, the stronger your spirit becomes. This way you get authority not just on earth but also before the Heavens
— Sunday Adelaja
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
— Michel De Montaigne
I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.
— Kelley Armstrong
We must only demand that which each individual can give," said the king. "The authority rests first on reason.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.
— Christopher Moore
I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.
— Flannery O'Connor
Fish are not the best authority on water.
— Jane Yolen
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
— Catherynne M Valente
Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
— Dan Pearce
If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above
— Sunday Adelaja
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.
— Pope Paul III
Authority to heal is given from on high.
— Ernest Angley
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
— Francis Bacon
We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it up the rear entrance at Comedy.
— Jasper Fforde
As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.
— Bertrand Russell
God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.
— Jackie Chan
Your time is your life. You are absolutely the final authority on how you will use it.
— Anne Katherine
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.
— Margaret Benson
When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.
— Calvin Miller
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
— Brand Blanshard
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
— Stendhal
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.
— Mark Twain
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
— Erich Fromm
Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.
— Henry Eyring
Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.
— James Hunter
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
— Ernestine Rose
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren't given permission to pass it on as you see fit.
— Michael Ende
He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth.
— Patricia Lockwood
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.
— Robert Scoble
She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.
— Ford Madox Ford
All authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.
— Abraham Kuyper
On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.
— H. Beam Piper
Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on. — Robert Ringer
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
— Jurgen Klinsmann
I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.
— Jean Drapeau
On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power - authority - exists only as it is perceived.
— Brandon Sanderson
When Jesus came near, he spoke to them. He said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." Matthew 28:18
— Dianne Neal Matthews
