Authority Quote by Dalai Lama

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount…

— Simon Greenleaf

“A second way in which our motives influence the kind of evidence we entertain involves whose opinions, expert or otherwise, we consult. We can…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.”

— Bryant McGill

“We defer to authority figures because they are supposed to know more than we do. If a mistake is made, it's easy to lay…

— Mary J. Ruwart

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and…

— Dante L. Germino

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

— James Cromwell

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

— Anonymous

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

— James Hunter

When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted…

— Parker J. Palmer

My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that…

— Michel Foucault