“Learn knowledge and science from him who teaches it, even if he doesn't practice what he preaches.”
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 299
“They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”
Oxford Union Debate (3 December 1964)
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer
“English Aphorists,” p. 123
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”
Knute Rockne (1888–1931) American college football player and college football coach (1888-1931)
As quoted in The Reader's Digest Vol. 135 (1989), p. 34
Variant: One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
interview with Michael Parkinson (1974), quoted in Adam Lusher, " 'The white man is the devil' – what the Nation of Islam taught Muhammad Ali https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/muhammad-ali-nation-of-islam-michael-parkinson-interview-who-were-elijah-muhammad-a7066301.html", _The Independent_ (June 5, 2016)
John Berridge (1716–1793) British priest
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 480.
“Practice yourself what you preach.”
[F]acias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades.
Asinaria, Act III, scene 3, line 54 (line 644 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: Do you then yourself do that which you would be suggesting to us to do. (translator Henry Thomas Riley, 1912)
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter IV
Ilana Mercer South African writer
“ Trump Doesn’t Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-doesnt-need-to-talk-like-a-conservative/,” WND.com, March 17, 2016 <br class="br">2010s, 2016
Smriti Irani (1972) Indian politician
On being appointed the brand ambassador of VHP's Shrimad Ramayan Parichay Yojana Samiti, as quoted in " VHP takes Ramayan, Mahabharat to schools http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/24vhp.htm" Rediff (24 February 2006)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)