Sentence examples for important dictum from inspiring English sources

It should be remembered that, in this area, "When in doubt, DON'T" is a very important dictum.

Lipsius devotes considerable attention to this important Stoic dictum.

Blasi characterized this decision as an "absolutely important precedent and dictum in terms of the good fight against First Amendment absolutism" and in that way is harmonious with Shiffrin's arguments in his book.

But to quote Kingsley Amis's famous dictum: importance isn't important, good writing is – or in this case, good film-making.

In Stage four (authority and social order obedience driven), it is important to obey laws, dictums and social conventions because of their importance in maintaining a functioning society.

Two young Americans have emerged as pre-eminent exceptions to this dictum, and very important new voices in the field.

But the physicist Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel prizewinner, also gave us another important, if less well-known, dictum: that if you want to have good ideas, you must have lots of ideas and learn to throw away the bad ones.

Noting the occasional failures is also important: to quote George Santayana's dictum, those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it.

Consider Virginia Woolf's dictum: "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war.

We must make one important departure from our "autumnal region" dictum -- and it lies toward the instep end of the Italian boot, south of Rome, none of it far from the Mediterranean coastline; it's the region anchored by Campania, where a renaissance of indigenous white varieties has brought a wonderful spin on the harvest white.

The first case taught an important lesson and re-enforced the old dictum – " presence of a large number of neutrophils on the Gram stain indicates that the sputum is of good quality".