Edmund Burke Quote

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.


A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (ed. 1764)


It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more...

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more...

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more...

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more...