Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God. — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring." — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality.… — William James Copy Share Image
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices.… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love:… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake… — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The master of the palace had similar functions at the court of Judah. Announcing the promotion of Elyaqim, Isaiah 22:22 says: 'I… — Roland de Vaux Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth. — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image