Precede Quotes

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. (Alan Perlis)
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. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
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. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
I maintain that attitudes do really precede propositions, feelings come before facts. View quote
Marvin Minsky
You 're our enemy lead the way, and we 'll precede. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship. View quote
Anne Brontë
Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. View quote
William Wordsworth
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. (Leonardo da Vinci)
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. View quote
Ted Engstrom
However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage. View quote
Samson Raphael Hirsch
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. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. View quote
Douglas Horton
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment. View quote
Judith Ellen Foster
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. View quote
Tom Hicks
You are no doubt aware that the Almighty, desiring to lead us to perfection and to improve our state of society, has revealed to us laws which are to regulate our actions. These laws, however, presuppose an advanced state of intellectual culture. We must first form a conception of the Existence of the Creator according to our capabilities; that is, we must have a knowledge of Metaphysics. But this discipline can only be approached after the study of Physics: for the science of Physics borders on Metaphysics, and must even precede it in the course of our studies, as is clear to all who are familiar with these questions. View quote
Maimonides
From the beginning of the world it has been ordained that certain signs must needs precede certain events. View quote
Cicero
Air, fire, water and the earth evolve out of the spiritual and material staminibus in periodic cycles of time. Diverse connections of water, air, and light precede the emergence of the seed of the simplest plant, for instance moss. Many plants had to come into being, then die away before an animal emerged. Insects, birds, water animals, and night animals preceded the present animal forms; until finally the crown of earthly organization appeared-the human being, microcosm. He is the son of all the elements and beings, Nature's most carefully chosen conception and the blossom of creation. He must be the youngest child of Nature; many evolutions and revolutions must have preceded his formation. View quote
Johann Gottfried Herder
This character of depersonalization is certainly a constant of all my personages.... The charm of my Portraits enterprise consisted exactly in undergoing a treatment of depersonalization of the effigies of the persons designated. This persistent drive to depersonalize the persons seems to me to precede the paintings (and is more or less conscious in my mind throughout their execution).... [this depersonalisation requires] imagination from the viewer to recognize and complete the portrait. (Jean Dubuffet)
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I have throughout introduced the Integral Calculus in connexion with the Differential Calculus.... Is it always proper to learn every branch of a direct subject before anything connected with the inverse relation is considered? If so why are not multiplication and involution in arithmetic made to follow addition and precede subtraction? The portion of the Integral Calculus, which properly belongs to any given portion of the Differential Calculus increases its power a hundred-fold... View quote
Augustus De Morgan
... talk should precede, not follow, the issuance of orders. View quote
Dean Acheson
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives. So, in compliance with nature's working plan, we must permit womanhood its full development before we can expect of it efficient motherhood. If we are to make racial progress, this development of womanhood must precede motherhood in every individual woman. View quote
Margaret Sanger