Best authority quotes

Authority is quite degrading. (Oscar Wilde)

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. (Michel de Montaigne)

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. (Thomas Jefferson)

The wisest have the most authority. (Plato)

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. (Yugoslavian Proverb )

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. (Kenneth Blanchard)

Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance. (Charles de Gaulle )

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. (Francis Bacon )

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