Instruction Quotes

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Human, Reason

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

Home, Fire, Find

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher

Good, Book, Company

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

Art, Sun, Picture

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake

Wiser, Horses, Wrath

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace

Life, Experience, Suffering

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore

Education, Learning, Training

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

Yourself, Live, Children

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph Addison

Good, Humility, Youth

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne

Love, Learning, Sports

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Important, Book, Earth

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan

Sympathy, Children, Far

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Important, Book, Fact

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Frederick William Robertson

Life, Education, Universe

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Edward Gibbon

Power, Happy, Almost

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday

Give, Reason, Full

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Zi

Bravery, Stay, Guidance

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Great, Teacher, Adversity

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Bodhidharma

Nature, True, Through

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller

Great, God, Mistakes

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
Bryan Adams

Success, Good, Great

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
Jonathan Kozol

Matter, Nation, Themselves

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
James Dyson

Best, Four, England

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage

Good, Knowledge, Country

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
Charles Babbage

Knowledge, Country, State

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Nature, Experience

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
James Anthony Froude

Time, Best, Mistakes

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell

Life, Living, Worth

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
Lionel Blue

Book, Progress, Religious

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
Stockwell Day

Education, Sex, Law

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