Authority Quotes
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted.
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.
Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.
