Precepts Quotes

Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in - embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington's own. - Nicholas Eberstadt

Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages; but we also judge those happy who have learned in the school of life how to bear its ills and not buck against the yoke. - Juvenal

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. - Joseph Lancaster

When I found out about this controversy a lot of doubts arose in my mind. I started thinking, were these Buddhist teachers following their own precepts? - Erik Curren

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's. - Nigel Harris

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy. - Friedrich Max Muller

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. - Francis Bacon

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. - Bible