Example is the best precept.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good example is far better than a good precept.
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
I don't prejudge.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.