Precept Quotes

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Short
  • Precept
  • Effectual

• All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Precept

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

  

  Sidney Buchman
  • Money
  • Value
  • Precept

• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Prepare
  • Precept

• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • God
  • Blow
  • Acknowledge

• Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Teaching
  • Example
  • Precept

• Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Business
  • Precept

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

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Doubt
  • Accept
  • Precept