James Cromwell Quotes

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

James Cromwell

Quotes to Explore

I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

Damon Galgut
- Work
- Night
- Day
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright
- True
- Hope
- Assumption
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Hannah Arendt
- Age
- Free
- Me
When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

Edmund Morgan
- America
- Together
- History