Definition of Precept

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Definition of Precept
	Precept To teach by precepts. Related Definitions: By, Teach, To

Precept Quotations

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

A good example is far better than a good precept.
Dwight L. Moody

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein

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

Example is the best precept.
Aesop

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

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney

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

Precept Translations

precept in German is Vorschrift
precept in Latin is praeceptum, praecepio

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