Instruct
Arranged; furnished; provided.
Instructed; taught; enlightened.
To put in order; to form; to prepare.
To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.
To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.
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Instruct Quotations
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Zi
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
George Henry Lewes
As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
Fay Wray
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Jock Sturges
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Theodore Sturgeon
Instruct Translations
instruct in Dutch is instrueren
instruct in French is instruisons, mandater, instruis, instruisez
instruct in German is unterweisen, einweisen, anleiten
instruct in Italian is assegnare, delegare
instruct in Latin is praedico, precipio, paecipio, moneo
instruct in Norwegian is undervise, instruere
instruct in Portuguese is instrua
instruct in Spanish is comisionar, asignar
instruct in Swedish is instruera, undervisa
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