Example is the best precept.

- Aesop

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

- Denis Diderot

A good example is far better than a good precept.

- Dwight L. Moody

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

- Dan Pfeiffer

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

- H. P. Lovecraft

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

- Hannah Arendt

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

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

- Quintilian

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

- Rene Descartes

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