Top 100 Precede Quotes
#1. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
#2. No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
Charles Babbage
#3. I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#4. Dare to imagine your dreams, imagination precede the fulfillment of the dreams
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even unhappiness. I think that these things are the first steps to precede the birth of a new thought. This is why I like to read.
Almudena Solana
#6. Always remember that striving and struggling precede success, even in the dictionary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#9. If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.
Tom Hicks
#10. Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another ... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing ... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.
Philip Guston
#11. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Erin Morgenstern
#12. Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.
Octavius Winslow
#13. A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#14. Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
Flannery O'Connor
#15. Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
Morarji Desai
#16. Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
Lucy Parsons
#17. Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Stephen Covey
#19. There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
George Bird Grinnell
#20. The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
Ludwig Quidde
#21. The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know when the 'I' takes on a different form. Our dreams are our second life. I am incapable of going through the doors that lead us to that invisible world without a shiver.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.
Lynn G. Robbins
#24. Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
Morris Kline
#25. Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
#26. Sometimes, as she has well learned in life, one's actions must precede the emotions one hopes to feel.
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
#27. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
#28. Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
#29. Everyone is influenced by those things that precede formal education, that come out of the blue and out of everyday life.
Rebecca Solnit
#30. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
#31. But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
Abdellatif Laabi
#32. Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus
#33. The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#34. If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read:
To the glory of Man.
Ayn Rand
#35. Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth.
Richard Gerber
#36. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
#37. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas
#39. The idea that her death should precede his was worse than intolerable, it was obscene.
Joe Hill
#40. She was one who wished to believe the human motives precede actions for she was (she had always been) a rational individual yet clearly there were times (was this one of those times?) when actions might precede motives and even render them useless.
Joyce Carol Oates
#41. Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.
Henrietta Mears
#42. Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.
Samuel Beckett
#43. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#44. The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted Engstrom
#45. To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#46. ( ... ) but no, ends must not be permitted to precede beginnings and middles, even if recent scientific experiments have shown us that within certain types of closed systems, under intense pressure, time can be persuaded to run backwards, so that effects precede their causes.
Salman Rushdie
#47. In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.
Will Mancini
#48. The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova
#49. As a broad generalisation, the more people trust each other in a society, the more prosperous that society is, and trust growth seems to precede income growth.
Matt Ridley
#50. We believe that our salvation depends solely upon God's work in us, and not upon our testimony; and the little child with stammering lips, but wrought upon by the Holy Spirit, will precede vain scribes into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Abraham Kuyper
#52. Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
George William Curtis
#53. Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation.
Murray N. Rothbard
#55. The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones. Moreover,
John Henry Newman
#56. The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
other efforts.
Albert Einstein
#57. Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.
Jean Racine
#58. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.
Rene Girard
#59. The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.
Milan Kundera
#61. Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#62. Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.
T.D. Jakes
#63. We simply don't have the words to convey the force of these perceptions to our straight selves, perhaps because they are the kinds of perceptions that precede words.
Michael Pollan
#64. Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
Edward Coke
#65. The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.
Cecelia Ahern
#66. Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
Frederic Bastiat
#67. It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them capable of both. It will be sufficient, then, if, after infants have grown up, they exhibit the power of their baptism. - John Calvin
John Calvin
#68. Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Gregory Bateson
#69. However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#70. Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#72. The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr.
Ibn Ata Allah
#73. Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
William Walker Atkinson
#74. Faith must precede all effort to understand. Reflection upon revealed truth naturally follows the advent of faith, but faith comes first to the hearing ear, not to the cogitating mind.
A.W. Tozer
#75. Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Douglas Horton
#78. Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
Julio Cortazar
#79. All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.
Wayne Dyer
#80. Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#84. The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary ...
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#85. Your scent does not precede you, it also doesn't define you. Any scent you wear is a discovery.
Kristen Ashley
#86. The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
Carl Jung
#87. They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.
Chris Cleave
#88. Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.
Joe L. Wheeler
#89. Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Jean Racine
#90. As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Oscar Wilde
#91. The recent failure of democracy to take hold in many African and Islamic states is a reminder that a change in the norms surrounding violence has to precede a change in the nuts and bolts of governance.
Steven Pinker
#92. Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas A Kempis
#93. In any government, interests precede truth.
Toba Beta
#94. Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
#95. Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#96. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.
Mark Frost
#97. Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.
Peter D. Schiff
#98. My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but ... precede it.
John Stuart Mill
#99. I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Mark Twain
