Instructed Quotes
119 Instructed quotes by 106 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
— Robert Breault
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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
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
— John Lyly
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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
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To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
— James Atlas
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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
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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
— Isocrates
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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
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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
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There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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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
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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
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
— Seamus Heaney
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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
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
— James Madison
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Instructed Quotes
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