Authority Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who explains things to an intelligent person need not tire himself out talking.

— Vikrant Parsai

You never understand a person until you consider things from his own point of view.

— Harper Lee

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

— Harper Lee

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

— John Stuart Mill

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

— John Locke