Example Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
Michael Behe
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Felix Adler
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
Joseph Addison
Why doth one man’s yawning make another yawn?
Robert Burton
I’ve found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example – to lead with your fork, not your mouth.
Bernie Wilke
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton
Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts–for example, to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
Michael Behe
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
Giorgio Armani
I’ve learned that children’s eyes observe more than there ears ever hear and the example we set for them determines their actions.
Anonymous
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Amelia Earhart
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave Barry
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
Laurel Clark
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
Claudian
IF we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
William Bartram
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Hosea Ballou
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who’s seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they’re being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick
Every word that judges value is circular. ‘Good’ is ‘right’ is ‘proper’ is ‘just’ is ‘good’. But check the examples, and they’re not circular at all: Every one says ‘makes me happy’.
Richard Bach
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.
John Balguy
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on.
Dalai Lama
People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‘Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.’ They’re changed. Trust me.
George W. Bush
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
James S. Coleman
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
Gerry Adams
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
Thomas Jefferson
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