In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good example is far better than a good precept.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Innocence can be more powerful than experience.
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
Example is the best precept.