Instruct Quotes

131 quotes by 109 authors

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
With a smile we should instruct our youth... — Moliere
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to… — Saint John Chrysostom
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare
The things which hurt, instruct. — Benjamin Franklin
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" — Marcus Tullius Cicero
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. — Jerome K. Jerome
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great… — Calvin Coolidge
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people… — Mark Twain
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… — Thomas Jefferson
Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions… — Jeff Baxter
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome… — M. Scott Peck
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith,… — J C Ryle
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to… — Joseph de Maistre
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to… — Hannah More
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. — Antisthenes
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if… — John Flavel
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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