Top Precept Quotes
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
James Russell Lowell 
Dwight L. Moody 
Hannah Arendt 
Samuel Smiles 
Ronald Reagan 
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan 
66% of people like this quote
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
63% of people like this quote
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
59% of people like this quote
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil
54% of people like this quote
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
53% of people like this quote
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt
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I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney
50% of people like this quote