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title: "48 Didactic Quotes by 46 authors"
description: "Browse 48 Didactic quotes by 46 authors. Discover the best Didactic sayings and thoughts."
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> [Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dee-rees/nothing-i-do-is-didactic-i-just-want-to-hold-up-a-mirror-and-say-this/)

[Dee Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dee-rees/)

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> [I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucinda-childs/i-do-not-like-to-be-thought-of-as-avant-garde-or-some-kind-of/)

[Lucinda Childs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucinda-childs/)

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> [What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/what-you-demand-from-storytelling-is-a-moral-even-political-import-i/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

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> [The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samael-aun-weor/the-best-didactic-for-the-elimination-of-the-ego-it-is-found-in-the/)

[Samael Aun Weor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samael-aun-weor/)

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> [Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-creeley/communication-is-mutual-feeling-with-someone-not-a-didactic-process/)

[Robert Creeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-creeley/)

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> [A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-morgan/a-historian-should-not-be-didactic-that-is-a-word-that-makes-my-blood/)

[Edmund Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-morgan/)

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> [What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-d-vinge/what-i-do-not-want-to-write-is-didactic-political-tracts/)

[Joan D. Vinge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-d-vinge/)

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> [The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-schaff/the-apostolic-writings-are-of-three-kinds-historical-didactic-and/)

[Philip Schaff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-schaff/)

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> [A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-crouch/a-child-knows-when-they-are-on-the-receiving-end-of-a-didactic/)

[Tim Crouch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-crouch/)

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> [I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-potter/i-am-not-interested-in-making-didactic-polemical-statements-that-is/)

[Sally Potter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-potter/)

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> [As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-mcmillan/as-a-writer-you-get-to-bring-attention-to-something-without-preaching/)

[Terry McMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-mcmillan/)

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> [Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/northrop-frye/beauty-and-truth-may-be-attributes-of-good-writing-but-if-the-writer/)

[Northrop Frye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/northrop-frye/)

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> [I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/i-tend-to-think-of-fiction-as-being-mainly-about-characters-and-human/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-gadsby/i-don-t-want-to-be-a-didactic-voice-i-like-to-ask-more-questions-than/)

[Hannah Gadsby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-gadsby/)

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> [Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mckee/don-t-be-didactic-don-t-write-about-poverty-write-about-poor-people/)

[Robert McKee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mckee/)

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> [Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brit-marling/science-fiction-has-a-way-of-letting-you-talk-about-where-we-are-in/)

[Brit Marling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brit-marling/)

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> [Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/artist-should-look-at-the-reality-and-brutality-of-modern-life-in-all/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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> [I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-legend/i-think-it-s-hard-to-really-write-a-song-that-will-educate-someone/)

[John Legend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-legend/)

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> [Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/many-of-the-early-greats-of-sf-hugo-gernsback-publisher-of-amazing/)

[Samuel R. Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-r-delany/)

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> [I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirin-neshat/i-m-really-interested-in-social-justice-and-if-an-artist-has-a/)

[Shirin Neshat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirin-neshat/)

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> [“Didactic instruction is teaching by telling, i.e. teacher presentation. In didactic instruction, the teacher directly tells the student what to believe and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-marselle/didactic-instruction-is-teaching-by-telling-i-e-teacher-presentation/)

[Terry Marselle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-marselle/)

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> [When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/when-i-was-younger-i-was-much-more-polemical-and-didactic-much-less/)

[Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/)

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> [Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/bertrand-russell-used-a-hypothetical-teapot-in-orbit-about-mars-for/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-novel-is-a-perfect-medium-for-revealing-to-us-the-changing/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/art-is-created-to-make-us-to-make-our-passage-through-the-world/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norm-macdonald/the-joy-a-person-is-usually-seen-to-express-at-the-conversion-of/)

[Norm MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norm-macdonald/)

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> [I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shirley/i-m-incapable-of-writing-without-social-commentary-i-like-to-think/)

[John Shirley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shirley/)

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> [We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-satie/we-cannot-doubt-that-animals-both-love-and-practice-music-that-is/)

[Erik Satie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-satie/)

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> [The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-rank/the-correct-didactic-analysis-is-one-that-does-not-in-the-least/)

[Otto Rank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-rank/)

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> [The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-essential-function-of-art-is-moral-but-a-passionate-implicit/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-attenborough/i-had-a-huge-advantage-when-i-started-50-years-ago-my-job-was-secure/)

[David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-attenborough/)

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> [I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damian-pettigrew/i-don-t-like-making-didactic-pedagogical-documentaries-based-on/)

[Damian Pettigrew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damian-pettigrew/)

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> [It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ozeki/it-takes-a-long-time-to-write-a-book-i-m-not-going-to-spend-that-much/)

[Ruth Ozeki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ozeki/)

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> [ If you look at the end of the movie \[Monsegnor Lahzar\], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philippe-falardeau/if-you-look-at-the-end-of-the-movie-monsegnor-lahzar-i-give-a-lot-of/)

[Philippe Falardeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philippe-falardeau/)

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> [I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-nolan/i-don-t-like-to-talk-about-messages-so-much-with-films-simply-because/)

[Jonathan Nolan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-nolan/)

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> [If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-copan/if-writing-with-a-goal-whether-it-be-evangelistic-apologetic-or/)

[Paul Copan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-copan/)

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> [I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-braver/i-m-really-sort-of-cautious-about-being-too-didactic-to-me-there-are/)

[Adam Braver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-braver/)

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> [I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kubrick/i-don-t-think-that-writers-or-painters-or-filmmakers-function-because/)

[Stanley Kubrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kubrick/)

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> [It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wynne-jones/it-s-the-ability-to-bring-events-and-characters-to-a-resolution-that/)

[Tim Wynne-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wynne-jones/)

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> [I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-didactic-art-is-boring-i-mean-i-love-it-in-terms-of-like-some/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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