Precept Quotes

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor`s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Examples is more forcible than precept.