Instruct Quotes

131 quotes by 109 authors

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him… — Al Smith
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. — Xunzi
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or… — Richard E. Pattis
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind… — Sakyong Mipham
Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words. — Therese of Lisieux
I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids… — Chris Kyle
Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation. — Bernhard Rust
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art… — George Inness
There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ...… — Bernard of Clairvaux
We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way… — Oren Lyons
All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. — Baden Powell de Aquino
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn… — Carl Sagan
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in… — Kay Redfield Jamison
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may… — William Wilberforce
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another,… — Plato
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. — Theodore Sturgeon
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes

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