Best innovation & authority Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.”

Book Use Values Interesting Forever Fashion Authority Innovation Connected Superiors Merit Entertaining Jurisprudence

Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.”

Challenges Ability Break Keys Authority Innovation Ingredients

Author:Vivek Wadhwa

“I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.”

Ideas Creativity Authority Innovation Dna

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.”

Whole Might Fear Authority Intellectual Innovation Threat Deeper Mediocrity Academic Collapse Evoke Edifice

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.”

Dangerous Source Authority Innovation Mere Precedent

Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.”

“This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.”

Knows May Age Spirit Results Wise Authority Innovation Casts Rage Driving Rejected Quotations Compass Vessel Adventurous Passengers Stalking Cast Away Adventurous Spirit

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“In our own day, there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.”

Education Authority Innovation Individuality Status Quo Autonomy System Academia Nonconformity Standardization

Book:Authority and the Individual

Source: Authority and the Individual

“In the comprehension of familiar truths guaranteed by authority, the age is much less concerned with originality of interpretation than with the confirmation and corroboration of the truths themselves. It regards the rediscovery of what has already been established, the reforming of what has already been formed and the reinterpretation of truth as pointless and meaningless. The supreme values are beyond question and contained in eternally valid forms; the desire to change them, merely for the sake of changing them, would be pure presumption. The purpose of life is possession of the eternal values, not mental activity for its own sake. This is a calm, firmly established age, strong in faith, never losing its confidence in the validity of its own conception of truth and moral law, having no intellectual dissension and no conflicts of conscience, feeling no yearning for the new and no boredom with the old. At any rate, it does not lend any support to such ideas and feelings.”

Authority Innovation Individuality Way Of Thinking Medieval Eternal Value

Book:The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

Source: The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

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