Example Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Example is always more efficacious than precept.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Example Statistics
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
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
Pretention is just an intention of mind and not the ignorance of heart to believe in something that speaks nothing of our pious soul,… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God. — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work. — Brandon Ingram Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
