Famous Quotes
40 Quotations with Precept.
- 1. Denis Diderot: There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- 2. Rene Descartes: The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such wi ...
- 3. Robert Cecil: Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week t ...
- 4. Edmund Burke: It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what ...
- 5. Seneca: Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind ...
- 6. Samuel Smiles: Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and ...
- 7. Samuel Smiles: It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener s ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, ...
- 10. Seneca: The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
- 11. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the p ...
- 12. The Book of the Golden Precepts: The way to final freedom is within thy self.
- 13. Bible: Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
- 14. Dwight L. Moody: A good example is far better than a good precept.
- 15. Ximenes Doudan: An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expre ...
- 16. The Talmud: Charity is equal to all the other precepts put together.
- 17. Robert Cecil: Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to ...
- 18. Aesop: Example is the best precept.
- 19. Charles Dickens: Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the ...
- 20. George Eliot: It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, "Know thyself, ...