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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.


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QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Example is always more efficacious than precept.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we a...
EDMUND BURKE Valuable lesson in life is learnt from experience when one is subjected to various aspect of day to ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almo...
MARIO PUZO Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on...
ROBERT CECIL The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood.
AULIQ ICE Pussy is sweeter than honey and more valuable than money.
MARY B. MORRISON A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A good reputation is more valuable than money.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) A good example is far better than a good precept.
DWIGHT L. MOODY In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
GEORG CANTOR Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The ability to understand is more valuable than knowledge.
STEVEN REDHEAD There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There’s nothing more valuable in life than integrity. Trust me.
FRANK SONNENBERG The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product
HAVELOCK ELLIS A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Money spent in tending man's need is far more valuable than money spent in any temple.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world.
VIOLET JAMES Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
EDWARD ZWICK Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.
CHESPIRITO The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its v...
JIMMY CARTER Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
JANE AUSTEN Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
JIM ROHN Everything and anything is valuable.
WADADA LEO SMITH The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas...
SAMUEL SMILES There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Companies that do not have a succession plan in place in which their seasoned professionals are teac...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement.
FREDDIE WONG For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
WILL SMITH There's no question that the network is extraordinarily valuable and it's much more valuable than th...
DAVID LONDONER The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Love is not valuable more than friendship. No sir. Love is always in need of taking. Friendship inde...
WOHI PURANA We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is...
HELMUT JAHN Finding the right Question is more valuable and rewarding than finding the right Answer.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious ...
TERRY GOODKIND Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.)...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.
J.R. RIM So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than ...
HANS BLIX Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR DOYLE Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR. Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Experience is more important than knowledge.
SANTOSH KALWAR That, I think, is an even more valuable experience if you're in a position to see how they put the m...
LIZ STUBBS A player who makes a team great is much more valuable than a great player.
JOHN WOODEN Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past.
STEPHEN ASBURY Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
ASTRO TELLER A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a person who can listen ...
UNKNOWN Meredith is not getting a lot of numbers so far this season, but she's learning that basketball is m...
TROY MILLER Life is filled with a precious resource more valuable & available than diamond & platinum,it is call...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of a global brand name is more important and valuable today than ever before.
ISADORE SHARP For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who wi...
DONALD WILLIAMS Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the com...
TED SARANDOS Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrins...
NELSON MANDELA Example is the best precept.
AESOP The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATES If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA I don't know of any sport where the home field, or course, is more valuable than golf.
BILL LEAGUE We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v...
D.H. LAWRENCE Time Is more valuable than money because money is made through time but time cannot be bought with m...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is so much to do and see visitors will find it hard to see everything in one day. We are encou...
BRYAN BRETT Almost everything important in life is invisible.
NADJA SAM No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed a...
JAMES CASH PENNEY This time it's all business. The out of state experience is so valuable.
CHRIS HANSON Kristyn worked on her game more during the off-season than before. Hopefully, Maria will be able to ...
ERIC SWANSON He may prove to be more valuable for them in his post race career than during the career.
DAN OSIPOW For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a littl...
BIBLE To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolt...
MARILYN FRENCH They do more than pay our bills. They are providing a valuable service.
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer tha...
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty
ROGER ASCHAM To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to ...
MARILYN FRENCH Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
BIBLE There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...
MARQUIS DE SADE My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
NAOMIE HARRIS As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, b...
PETER GREENAWAY To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix...
MARILYN FRENCH We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholar...
DARIUS RUCKER It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME Sometimes you need to lose everything to find what is valuable.
JEFFREY FRY Announcing that "I'm so busy" is all about out-doing each other and bragging, I'm more important, mo...
BRYAN INDIGO I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than ...
NAVAL RAVIKANT There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from expe...
ARCHIBALD MCLEISH There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from exp...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH He's more mature toward all aspects of the game. I think he understands that the complete player is ...
GEORGE KARL You look at communities like Pass Christian – almost everything is gone. Hancock County – almost...
JOHN MCFARLAND Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most val...
RANDY PAUSCH I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
EWAN MCGREGOR No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead b...
THICH NHAT HANH I have always said that a Tour victory is more valuable if Lance Armstrong is participating. I will ...
JAN ULLRICH What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
EDGAR FRIEDENBAR What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG Be yourself; you have nothing more valuable to offer the world than the original you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I have found that it is better to be alone than in the wrong company. A single conversation with the...
JOHN MASON The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy ...
JOHN WYNDHAM But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, l...
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather t...
QUINTILIAN For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
QUINTILIAN Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at time...
QUINTILIAN The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is ...
QUINTILIAN It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIAN Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies...
QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIAN While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no chara...
QUINTILIAN Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barr...
QUINTILIAN Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies ...
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
QUINTILIAN A liar should have a good memory
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
QUINTILIAN While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
QUINTILIAN Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict ...
QUINTILIAN The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick h...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in th...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulor...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN