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Tag Name "Precede" (65)

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Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
Morris Kline
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Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
Judith Ellen Foster
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Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.
Joe L. Wheeler
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
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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
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My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.
Joey Barton
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
François-René de Chateaubriand
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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
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Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
Edward Coke
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The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
William Walker Atkinson
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The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.
William Ellery Channing
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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
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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?
Elisabeth Elliot
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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
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
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The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
Carl Jung
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Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
Anne Bronte
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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
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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
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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
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas a Kempis
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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
Ayn Rand
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