
“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 48 - "At Encinitas In California"
“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29
“It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.”
Book I, Ch. 1
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade.”
Heaven On Earth, 1654
“Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV
“Præcepta docent, exempla movent, Precepts may instruct, but examples do persuade.”
London's Lamentations
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.”
p 92
Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)
Source: Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development. (1904), p. vii; Preface.