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Instructed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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- On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what… — Saint Augustine
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want… — 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
- A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened… — Thomas Aquinas
- The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be… — Thomas Jefferson
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson
- No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not… — C. Northcote Parkinson