Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844) American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 199 (9 July 1843)
1840s
History of the Church, 3:297 (20 March 1839)
1830s
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844) American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 199 (9 July 1843)
1840s
“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.”
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) British poet
A Retort, from Gerald Massey's Lectures c.1900; often cited as They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority. <br class="br">Based on a quote of Lucretia Mott, "… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than “taking authority for truth.”", quoted in " Eminent women of the age http://books.google.de/books?id=gGFEDpWYWpwC&pg=PA375" By James Parton et. al., (S.M. Betts & Company, 1868, p375).
Robert Jeffress (1955) Pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas
"Politically Incorrect", First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, , quoted in * 2011-10-11
Perry Endorser Calls Judaism, Catholicism Path to Hell
Tim
Murphy
Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/watch-perry-endorser-jeffress-calls-judaism-catholicism-path-hell
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals. <br class="br">1900s <br class="br">Variant: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.52
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" William Lane Craig defends his ridiculous claim that animals don’t suffer http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/william-lane-craig-defends-his-ridiculous-claim-that-animals-dont-suffer/" February 9, 2013