When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.Courtney A. Kemp
Never rely on an authority in science. Even the greatest genius can be wrong — whether he has one or two Nobel prizes, or none.Erwin Schrödinger
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.Robert G. Ingersoll
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.Theodore Roosevelt
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.Ayn Rand
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.Joe Strummer
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.Adam Curtis
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.Jon Meacham
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.Montesquieu
Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.Eugene Kennedy
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.John Adams
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.Tupac Shakur
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.Stephen Covey
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.Herbert Read
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.Sam Walton
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.Galileo Galilei