Ifs Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

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

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

— Marcel Proust

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

— Henry Fielding

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you…

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Rene Descartes

“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

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Horace

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

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no…

— Thomas Aquinas

Taking a leap of faith is not about seeing, but believing in what you cannot see.

— CD Johnson