Barack Obama

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

American President

Sam Harris

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

American Author

Susan Collins

My conclusion about Mr. Trump's unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics. Instead, he opts to mock the vulnerable and inflame prejudices by attacking ethnic and religious minorities.

American Politician

Mary Wollstonecraft

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

British Writer

Samuel Smiles

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.

Scottish Author

Myles Munroe

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Bahamian Clergyman

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Roman Statesman

Lewis B. Smedes

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

American Poet

Howard Gardner

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

American Psychologist

A precept often reflects a core value or ethical stance fundamental to a belief system or society.

Ethical Foundation

Precepts are used to guide moral behavior rather than technical or procedural actions.

Moral Instruction

Precepts are often established by an authority, such as a religious leader, to instruct followers.

Greater Authority

In law, a precept has the power of a formal command, often linked to court orders or duties.

Legal Authority

A legal precept is an official instrument, reflecting the power of the judiciary or governmental authority.

Judicial Power

Receiving a legal precept often obligates the person to comply with judicial procedures or laws.

Obligation to Act

A precept in finance is usually an order for collecting taxes or levies, specific to local authorities.

Tax Collection

Financial precepts are instruments that local governments use to ensure adequate funding for services.

Local Government

Precepts contribute to community welfare by providing local councils the means to finance public services.

Public Services Fund

 require moral precepts that that admit of no exceptions so for instance if it's really wrong to lie it must always be wrong to lie and if you can find an exception well then there's no such thing as moral truth now why would we think this consider by analogy

Science can answer moral...

 does not tempt us to say that there are no truths to be known about human nutrition. Many people worry that a universal morality would require moral precepts that admit of no exceptions.