Quotes About Authority

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.