Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because…

— John Dewey

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

— John Heywood

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because…

— Leo Kottke

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

— Olga Tokarczuk

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and…

— Robert Shea

“Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.”

— Bryant McGill

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

— Giorgio Baglivi

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

— George Clooney

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

— Anonymous

“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.”

— Chuck Wendig

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

— John Dewey