Instructed Quotes

119 Instructed quotes by 106 unique authors

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit… — H. L. Mencken
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation. — Samuel Johnson
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner… — Van Wyck Brooks
If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names… — W.C. Fields
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle… — Richard Digance
My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been… — Jonathan King
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. — Robert Breault
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by… — Michel de Montaigne
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. — John Lyly
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… — Charles Darwin
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. — James Atlas
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of… — Guru Gobind Singh
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. — Isocrates
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness;… — Brigham Young
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what… — Marcus Aurelius
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're… — Sarah Silverman
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. — Epictetus
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her… — St. Jerome
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. — James Madison
As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious… — John Podhoretz
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to… — Richard Russo

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