Instruction Quotes

532 quotes by 432 authors

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is… — Samuel Johnson
Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games… — Roger Ebert
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. — Baltasar Gracian
... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if… — Edmund Barton
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. — Thomas Jefferson
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. — Thomas Carlyle
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never… — Daniel Defoe
What instruction the baby brings to the mother! — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate… — John Stuart Mill
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray… — Lisa Alther
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly… — Moses Mendelssohn
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book? — Francis Collins
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard… — Michael Shannon
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is… — Maria Montessori
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat… — William Matthews

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