A Quote by Margaret Halsey

Example is better than precept.

Margaret Halsey

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Better Example Precept Than

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Margaret Halsey
American - Author
1910 - 1997

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Samuel Smiles

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Paramahansa Yogananda

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody

Example is more powerful than precept.

Aesop

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Richard Cecil

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Seneca the Younger

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

Sergey Kirov

The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all who share the gift of life. A compassionate heart provides a firm ground for this precept.

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

Sathya Sai Baba

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

Seneca the Younger

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Seneca the Elder

There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.