Instructed Quotes

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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's… — Ezra Taft Benson
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry,… — William Gurnall
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. — Benjamin Rush
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel… — Thomas Aquinas
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what… — Saint Augustine
Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given. — Clarice Lispector
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton
I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative!… — Rajneesh
The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their… — Thomas Jefferson
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled… — Johannes Kepler
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there… — C. Northcote Parkinson
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all… — Larry Niven
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be… — Norman Cousins
Adde, quod ingÃ©nues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle. — Ovid
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three… — James Madison

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