Instructive Quotes

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it… — William Blake
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. — Robert Breault
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points… — Fredrik Bajer
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The… — Donald Kagan
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword… — Tom Brokaw
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. — Mark Twain
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen,… — Alexander Pope
To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. — John Heywood
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do… — Robertson Davies
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. — Denis Diderot
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they… — Paul Klee
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family… — Christine Pelosi
Nothing is less instructive than a machine. — Simone Weil
It may be in the cultural particularities of people â€” in their oddities â€” that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is… — Clifford Geertz
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot… — Kage Baker
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructiveâ€¦ compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in… — Guy Debord
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace… — Seamus Heaney
Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world steadily tempts us.… — Neal A. Maxwell

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