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Authority Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to…
- But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that…
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there…
More Authority Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin