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Precept Quotes (135 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

Source/Notes:
Excerpts of a Speech by Governor Ronald Reagan, Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 31, 1968 - Pre-presidency

“Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.”
―Mahatma Gandhi

Source/Notes:
Part IV, Chapter 9, A Tussle with Power - An Autobiography (1927)

“As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.”
―Edith Stein

“Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.”
―Sam Harris

“Example is the best precept.”
―Aesop

Source/Notes:
Aesop's Fables: Translated by Joseph Jacobs (1894). (2010 edition), MobileReference - ISBN: 9781607780656

“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
―Hannah Arendt

“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

Source/Notes:
Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)

“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
―Denis Diderot

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 235

“Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.”
―James Russell Lowell

“A good example is far better than a good precept.”
―Dwight L. Moody

“I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.”
―James Cash Penney

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