Examples Of Precept Quotes & Sayings

Since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior