Instruction Quotes

532 quotes by 440 authors

The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving… — Alexander Hamilton
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of… — Ronald Reagan
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican… — Alexander Hamilton
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Homer
Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions! — Catherine Coleman
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of… — Hannah More
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live. — Jon Voight
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. — Christopher Hitchens
A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying. — Alton Brown
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly… — Rachel Held Evans
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say… — Charles Tupper
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air,… — Paul Hawken
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and… — Samuel Adams
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy… — John F. Kennedy
In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction… — John Gresham Machen
I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed. — Sonia Gandhi
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own… — Samuel Johnson
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination,… — Augustus William Hare

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