Short Precept Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. — Augustine Of Hippo

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

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind. — Dudley Nichols