A Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Better Brotherhood Example Ideal Precept Than Understood

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian - Leader
January 5, 1893 - March 7, 1952

Example is better than precept.

Margaret Halsey

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

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

C. V. Wedgwood

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

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

Brad Alan Lewis

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."