Words matter. These are the best Precedes Quotes from famous people such as Jill Lepore, Douglas Horton, Wendell Phillips, Thomas A. Edison, Rita Mae Brown, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn’t.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
My reputation precedes me now.
My reputation precedes me all the time, but I’m not the monster people think I am.
The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?
We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we’ve been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
If there’s one thing that precedes my sleep, it’s my work.
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people’s behavior… isn’t going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Literature precedes genre.
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.
I’ve paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again… it’s funner that way.
