Quotes About Not Listening To Authority

#1. Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Francis Bacon

#2. Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Ihara Saikaku

#3. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

Jonathan Groff

#4. I've had so much fun working on 'Shameless.'

Robert Knepper

#5. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

A.J. Darkholme

#6. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.

A.J. Darkholme

#7. As people gain more authority, they often develop a lack of patience in listening to those under them. A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.

John C. Maxwell

#8. I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. many entrepreneurs focus only on short-term growth. They have an excuse: growth is easy to measure, but durability isn't.

Peter Thiel

#10. Late-night prejudice was apparently exhausting.

Chloe Neill

#11. I just lost the near stuff, around me. (But I will feel the disko...)

Deyth Banger

#12. Your holy will is the life of my soul.

Maria Faustina Kowalska

#13. Progress, properly understood, has, indeed, a most dignified and legitimate meaning. But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#15. In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.

Derek Mears

#16. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

John Avery

#18. I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.

Robert Drake