Familiar Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image “The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Familiar Inspirational Truest Truth
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words. — Sergey Kirov Copy Share Image
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there? — Karen Scalf Linamen Copy Share Image
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. — Damon Wayans, Jr Copy Share Image
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
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