Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
The wisest have the most authority.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.