Definitions Quote by Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what…

— Henry Fielding

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not…

— Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition…

— Seneca the Younger

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

— Horace

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

— Marcel Proust

“It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice. Most people act in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under…

— Gottfried Leibniz

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

— Robert Burns

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

— James Cook

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

— Martha Albrand

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

— Sivananda