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Letter "P" » Precepts
«Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
discipline, instruction, practical, Precepts, real life, school, School of, so far, theory, The school, useful
«Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.»
«Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.»
«They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.»
«Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.»
«The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Brahmin, Brahmins, contain, Precepts, prediction, predictions, strongly, the books, the smallest
«Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.»
«Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
analytic, as it were, doctrines, effects, helped, historical, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, on the contrary, operation, Precepts, proposal, proposals, put forward, relic, relics, religious doctrine, replacing, repression, residues, teachings, treatment
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
false witness, forbid, Interesting Times, interests, murder, observation, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, Precepts, reflection, require, steal, witness
«Never learnedThe icy precepts of respect.»
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